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
ultimate foundational truths
absolutes
believed education should be based on absolutes
Socrates (470-399 B.C)
student of Socrates; wrote The Republic
Plato
student of Plato at 18; “order in the universe must come from God”
Aristotle
Order of philosophers
S ocrates
P lato (SPA)
A ristotle
(alexander came after aristotle)
A time when Alexander spread Greek culture throughout his empire
Hellenistic Age
founded the school of philosophy known as Stoicism
Zeno
not much emotion; serious
stoic
remain indifferent to the pains and pleasures of life
stoicism
highest good of man was to live a life of calm pleasure
Epicurus
emphasized indulgence of bodily appetites and physical pleasure
Epicurus
proposed the earth revolves around the sun
Aristarchus of Samos
Plane geometry
Euclid
principles of geometry
Hipparchus
book that plato wrote
the republic
said “order in the universe must come from God”
Aristotle
school of philosophy
stoicism (founded by zeno)
oath by hippocrates
Hippocratic Oath
mathematics, engineering, and physics
Archimedes
calculated the circumference of the earth
Eratosthenes
wrote Geography
Strabo
The commonly spoken greek language used during the time of Christ
koine
