Ancient Greece Lesson 3
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- jury
- a group of persons sworn to render a verdict or true answer on a question or questions officially submitted to them.
- conclusion
- the end or close; final part.
- assembly
- an assembling or coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose
- Pericles
- Athenian leader noted for advancing democracy in Athens and for ordering the construction of the Parthenon
- Parthenon
- the temple of Athena Parthenos on the Acropolis at Athens, completed c438 b.c. by Ictinus and Callicrates and decorated by Phidias: regarded as the finest Doric temple.
- Socrates
- Greek philosopher whose indefatigable search for ethical knowledge challenged conventional mores and led to his trial and execution on charges of impiety and corrupting the youth. Although Socrates wrote nothing, his method of question and answer is captured in the dialogues of Plato, his greatest pupil.
- Acropolis
- the citadel or high fortified area of an ancient Greek city
- Peloponnesian Wars
- a war between Athens and Sparta, 431-404 b.c., that resulted in the transfer of hegemony in Greece from Athens to Sparta.
- philosophy
- the rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
- Plato
- Greek philosopher. A follower of Socrates, he presented his ideas through dramatic dialogues, in the most celebrated of which (The Republic) the interlocutors advocate a utopian society ruled by philosophers trained in Platonic metaphysics. He taught and wrote for much of his life at the Academy, which he founded near Athens in 386