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- mathematician
- someone who studies the science of math and numbers
- oracle
- a sacred shrine where a priest or priestess spoke for a god or goddess, many greeks visited one to find out about the future
- socratic method
- invented by Socrates (based on what socrates believed) you ask pointed questions of your student forcing them to use their reason and to see things for themself
- Sophist
- professional teachers in greece who traveled from city to city and made a living teaching others, believed students should use their time to improce themselves- many taught their students how to win an arguement and make good political speaches, they didint believe that gods influenced ppl, rejected the idea of absolute right or wrong
- solid geometry
- the study of ball-like shapes called spheres and tuve-like shapes called cylinders
- astronomer
- ppl who study stars, planets, and other heavenly bodies
- legacy
- what a person leaves behind when when she/he dies
- Epicureanism
- a philosophy founded by Epicurus, dont worry- be happy!
- Parthenon
- the most well known building built by Pericles in Athens, and is worth $3,000,000 and took 15 yrs 2 build it
- fable
- a short tale that teaches a lesson, each ended w/ a message or moral
- corinthian
- acanthus leaves (column)
- tragedy
- a person struggles to overcome difficulties but fails, as a result, the story has an unhappy ending, early greek ones presented ppl in a struffle against their fate, later they showed how a person's character flaws cause him/her to fail, performed in outdoor theaters as part of their religious festivals
- stoic
- for them happiness came from foollowing reason, not emotion, and doing your duty, someone who isnt affected by joy or grief, they thought ppl had a duty to serve their city
- comedy
- story ends happily, the word actually means drama w/ a happy ending, performed outdoor theaters as part of their religious festivals
- Ionic
- ram's head-volute (column)
- Hellenistic Era
- Alexander's conquests marked the beginning of this era
- epic
- long poems that told about heroic deeds, the earliest greek stories
- Stoicism
- Zeno deceloped it, became a cery popular philosophy in the Hellenistic Era, happiness comes from following reason, not emotions, not affected by jor or grief
- philosophers
- greek thinkers who believed the human mind could understand everything
- myth
- traditional stories about gods and heroes, greek mythology expressed the greek ppl's religious beliefs
- Doric
- plain greek column
- plane geometry
- the branch of mathematics that shows how points, lines, angles, and surfaces relate to one another
- philosophy
- "love of wisdom", led to the studyu of history, political science, science, and math
- drama
- a story told by actors who pretend to e characters in the story, acters speak, show emotion, and imitate the actions of the characters they represent