Chapter 4

Question 1

Socrates:

Answer 1

• Philosopher
• Question and answer
• Wanted people to be the best they can be

Question 2

Plato:

Answer 2

• Taught by Socrates
• Wrote a lot
• Men and women equal
• Invisible things in nature had order and purpose

Question 3

Aristotle:

Answer 3

• Plato
• recognized order and purpose
• concluded that there must be a superhuman called God

Question 4

Epic Poems:

Answer 4

A long poem that tells the deeds of a great hero

Question 5

Homer:

Answer 5

A writer who wrote The Iliad and the Odyssey

Question 6

The Odyssey:

Answer 6

Recounts the journeys of Greek heroes, Odysseus, after the fall of Troy makes a return to his life

Question 7

The Iliad:

Answer 7

Tale of Achilles

Question 8

Stoicism:

Answer 8

Don’t want to get too emotional one way or the other

Question 9

Agora:

Answer 9

An open area where people could assemble as a market

Question 10

Polis:

Answer 10

A town, city or village that served as a center of the polis where people could meet for political, social and religious activites

Question 11

Parthenon:

Answer 11

Temple in Athens to worship the god Athena

Question 12

Cleisthenes:

Answer 12

Founded foundation of Athenian democracy

Question 13

Thucydides:

Answer 13

Wrote a book called The History of the Peloponnsian War

Question 14

Pericles:

Answer 14

A dominant figure in Athenian politics who could speak well

Question 15

Herodotus:

Answer 15

Father of history, wrote first history books

Question 16

Sophocles:

Answer 16

A great Athenian playwright whose most famous play was Oedipus Rex

Question 17

Epicurus:

Answer 17

Being happy is the main goal in life

Question 18

Archimedes:

Answer 18

Scientist/mathematician who came up with ideas about gravity

Question 19

Thermopylae:

Answer 19

Persian invasion of Greece

Question 20

Peloponnesian War:

Answer 20

War between Sparta and Athens

Sparta won

Question 21

Ostracism:

Answer 21

Exclusion from a society or grou

Question 22

Alexander:

Answer 22

King of Macedonia who conquered Persian empire

Question 23

Hellenistic:

Answer 23

Time period where Greek ideas and culture carried to non-Greek areas

Question 24

Three Philosophers:

Answer 24

Socrates
Plato
Aristotle

Question 25

Compare And Contrast: Athens and Sparta

Answer 25

Sparta:

• Harsh, focused on military
• Women had greater freedom and could own properties

Athens:

• Education and arts
• Household duties for females
• Democracy

Both:
-Excluded women, slaves and non-greeks