2nd Semester Study Guide Chapter 8 Flashcards
Sophocles
– A general and a writer of plays
–he used three actors in his stories instead of one or two
Dash he placed painted seems behind the stage as a backdrop
Macedonia
– North of Greece
– Raised sheep and horses and good crops in their river valleys
– They were warrior people
Sophists
– Professional teachers in ancient Greece
Hellenistic era
– K when the Greek language in Greek ideas spread to the non-Greek peoples of Southwest Asia
Olympus
-where 12 most important gods and goddesses lived
– The highest mountain in Greece
Alexander
- a great military leader
- he often load into battle ahead of his manifest his own life
Pythagoras
- A Greek philosopher
- taught his pupils that the universe follow the same laws that govern music and numbers
Stoics
- people who follow Zeno a Phoenician who developed stoicism
- they believe that happiness came from following reason not emotions and doing your duty
Thucydides
-considered by many to be the greatest historian of the ancient world
-he fought in the Peloponnesian war afterword he wrote his “history of the Peloponnesian war”
So were in politics as the activities of human beings
Herodotus
- wrote the history of the Persian wars
- separate fact from legend
Homer
- A poet
- he wrote these epics doing the 700s BC: the Iliad and the Odyssey
Zeus
- King of the gods
- God of the sky rain and lightning
Euripides
-tried to take Greek drama beyond heroes in gods
Troy
-an epic poem written by the great poet homer
Socrates
- A critic of the sophists
- an Athenian sculptor who is true love was philosophy
