Ancient Greece Quiz
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- The face taht launched 1000 ships
- War based on kidnapping of Greek woman. Meaning: The person who set off all the trouble.
- Aristotle
- 3rd great philosopher of ancient Greece. Believed in the Middle class-they knew how to obey and knew how to rule
- Plato
- Author of "The Republic", non sophist, philosopher who disliked teh Athenian democracy. Did not trust the lower classes.
- Pythagoras
- Mathematician who wrote the pythagorean theorem
- Euclid
- wrote "The Elements of Geometry"
- Hippocrates
- physician who believed in natural causes of diseases and emphasized hygiene.
- Socrates
- Teacher who developed the Socratic Method, later killed for "corrupting the youth". Believer in Absolute Truth.
- Archimedes
- invented the compound pulley, cylinder screw, and concept of buoyancy
- Phidias
- In charge of Parthenon's sculptures. Carved "Athena".
- Thucydides
- 2nd great historian of ancient Greece. Wrote about the Peloponnesian War, rejected the idea that deities played a part in history
- Herodotus
- Writer of "Historia", believed in supernatural causes of events. Wrote about the Persian War.
- Homer
- wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey during and after Trojan War- 700s BC
- Sophocles
- A tragedian playwrite who wrote Oedipus Rex.
- Aeschylus
- the first of the great writers of tragedies in the 400s BC. Wrote 90 plays.
- Solon
- leader of Athens in 594 BC. Improved economic conditions.
- Philip II
- king of Macedonia who died just before the Persian War. Conquered Greek city-states.
- Alexander the Great- HERO
- Allowed people to continue with beliefs, spread Hellenistic culture, showed some amounts of courage, had excellent miliatry skill and education.
- Alexander the Great- VILLAIN
- Sold people into slavery, destroyed Persian culture, killed the innocent, tyrant.
- Beware of Greeks bearing gifts
- stems from "Trojan Horse" strategy. Meaning: Beware of enemies being too nice to you.
- He's so full of himself
- Narcissus story. Meaning: he only talks about himself.
- Caught between a rock and a hard place
- Meaning: a situation where you can't win
- If looks could kill
- Medusa-turned people to stone with evil looks.
- Opened up a Pandora's box
- started a big problem
- Achilles' heel
- weakness-Achilles had a weak heel
- Herculean effort
- too much ambition- in over your head
- Two Aegean civilizations taht preceded the Greeks
- Minoans and Mycenaeans
- Reason why the Greek city-states won the Persian War
- They united against the Persians
- agora
- public square in a Greek polis
- acropolis
- fortified hill
- Spartan society
- revolved around the army and was very proud. Every person was expected to be strong, and if babies were seen to be weak they would be left to die.
- Spartan women
- Healthy, strong, athletic, free, had more rights than most Greek women but still could not partake in government
- Athen's Golden Age
- 461-429 BC
- The reason lotteries were used:
- to help determine government leaders. It was helpful because it gave more peopple an opportunity to rule.
- Evolution of government in Athens
- Monarchy>oligarchy>tyrannies>democracy
- Historia was about this
- The Persian Wars
- Hellenistic culture
- Greek ideas spread by Alexander the Great
- Earliest Greek plays were:
- tragedies
- Cause and effect of the Peloponnesian War
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Cause: Rivalry between Sparta and Athens; Sparta gives an ultimatum but Athens refuses
Effect: Greek city-states weakened; Sparta wins but is taken over later by Thebes