Chapter 4 Flashcards
1
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Mt Olympus gods/goddesses
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12 including…
- Zeus
- Athena
- apollo
- artemis
- ares
- Aphrodite
- Poseidon
2
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Olympics
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A sports-themed festival to honor the king of gods, Zeus
3
Q
Greek sculpture
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- idealism over realism
- Polyclitus: wrote proportions “rules” through nature to produce an ideal human form
4
Q
Greek drama
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- tragedy
- in trilogies
- tragedy –> political comedy
5
Q
Written History
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- first written by the Greeks
- Thucydides = greatest historian of the Greek world
6
Q
Sophists
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- Traveling teachers/rejected speculation
- beyond human mind to understand the universe
- more important for individuals to improve themselves
7
Q
Order of Greek philosophers
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SPA
- Socrates
- Plato
- Aristotle
8
Q
Socrates
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- sculptor
- taught Plato
- goal of education = individual improvement
- “Socratic” method
- taught young people to question authority –> death sentence
9
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Plato
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- “how do we know what is real and what isn’t”
- higher world of unchanging forms
- objects (ex. Tree) are reflections of ideal forms (ex. Treeness)
- distrusted democracy
- philosophers/kings –> warriors –> rest (courage > desire)
- men/women have equal education and position access
10
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Aristotle
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- Plato’s most famous pupil
- did NOT think forms existed in a higher world (instead parts of objects themselves)
- defined scholarly topic/areas of study
- analyzed governments (favored constitutional > monarchy/aristocracy)
11
Q
Flat top pillar
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Doric - least fancy
12
Q
Rounded globes on top of pillar
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Ionian - mid fancy
13
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Three spikes on top of pillar
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Corinthian - very fancy
