ch 7 (quiz 2) Flashcards
What were the Greeks?
humanistic
“Classical Greece”
Hellenistic Age
said “Man is the measure of all things”
Protagoras
well-educated slave hired as a teacher of morals and manners
Pedagogue
temple dedicated to the goddess Athena
Parthenon
Father of History
Herodotus
wrote Fables (brief stories used to teach a moral lesson)
Aesop
brief stories used to teach a moral lesson
Fables
wrote 2 of the greatest tragedies
Sophocles
discovered math concepts still used today (like pythagorean theorem)
Pythagoras
Formulated a theory of atoms
Democritus
Father of medicine; known for Hippocratic Oath
Hippocrates
lover of wisdom
philosopher
Name given to early philosophers
Sophist
believed there is no absolute truth
Relativist