Chapter 6 Set 1
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- Pythagoras
- a philosopher who believed that everything could be explained in terms of mathematics
- Golden Age
- 'Greece entered a new era of cultural progress
- How art expressed Greek ideals
- glorified human beings, symbolized Greeks' pride in their city-states, expressed in harmony, balance, order, and moderation, and combined usefulness and beauty
- Thucydides
- became famous for his "history of the Peloponnesian War"
- Parthenon
- a white marble temple built in honor of Athena
- philosophy
- the study of basic questions of reality and human existence
- Tragedies
- the main chara. struggled against fate, or events
- Socrates
- thought that personal growth was key to education
- Aristophanes
- finest writer of Greek comedies, known for his sharp wit, used comedy to make Athenians think about the causes and effects of war
- Aristocracy
- government ruled by the upper class
- Aristotle
- everything had to be studied logically, had special classifying skills
- Dramas
- plays containing action or dialogue and involving conflict and emotion
- Hippocrates
- taught doctors to not rely on magic to heal, but reason
- Phidias
- One of the greatest sculptors of history, "Zues at the Temple of Olympia"
- Sophocles
- defended many traditional Greek values, "Oedipus Rex", 2nd of the well-known writers
- Euripides
- 3rd great playwright of the golden age, "The Trogan War"
- Herodotus
- was the first historian of the Western World
- Myron
- one of the greatest sculptors of history, "The Discus Thrower"
- Plato
- thought that everything was an imperfect expression of perfect and universal ideas, or form