5.4 Culture Of Classical Grecce

Question 0

Sacred Shane were a god or goddess revealed the future or some knowledge through a priest or priestess

Answer 0

Oracles

Question 1

______ were at the center of the religious practice; prayers and sacrafices; festivals and athletic games

Answer 1

Rituals

Question 2

Often presented in trilogies

Answer 2

Tragedies

Question 3

The best example of tragedy is __________, those plays relate to the fate of aragamemnon, the Trojan war, and his return home

Answer 3

Aeschylus

Question 4

Another example of Aeschylus so Sophocles or ______

Answer 4

Oedipus Rex

Question 5

“The love of wisdom.” Developed among Greeks as a critical or rational thought system about the nature of universe

Answer 5

Philosophy

Question 6

_____ taught that the essence of the universe could be found in music and numbers

Answer 6

Phthagoras

Question 7

The _______ were a group of traveling teachers in ancient Greece who often argued that it was beyond the reach of the human mind to understand the universe

Answer 7

Sophists

Question 8

One of the critics of the sophists; was a sculptor philosopher

Answer 8

Socrates

Question 9

The goal of education was only to improve the individual

Answer 9

Socratic method

Question 10

Platos student; did not accept plato’s theory of ideal forms

Answer 10

Aristotle

Question 11

Herodotus wrote _________; conflicts between the Greeks and the Persians, Greek freedom and Persian despotism

Answer 11

History of the Persian wars

Question 12

Thucydides wrote ____________; not concerned with divine forces or gods as casual factors in history

Answer 12

History of the Peloponnesian war