Chapter 6: Greece Flashcards
What was the sculptor Phidias best known for?
The sculptures in Parthenon
List 2 accomplishments of Myron
- He made people look the way the should (better in a sense)
- He created the Discus Thrower
What was the Greek sculptor Praxiteles best known for?
He sculpted people they way they actually are.
Name 3 Greek writers of tragedy and their best known works.
- Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
- Aeschylus: Oresteia
- Euripides: Trojan Woman
What was Oedipus Rex about?
Man doomed to marry his mother and kill his father.
Who was the best known Greek comedy writer?
Aristophanes
What were three goals of Phillip II
- Create a strong standing army
- Unified Greek city states
- Destroy Persian Empire
What were 3 goals of Alexander the Great?
- To create an empire that would conquer Europe and Asia
- To combine Greek and Persian cultures
- Kill Darius III
List 3 facts about Socrates
- He insisted the students trained to think for themselves
- He was an Athenian
- He taught that education was the key to personal growth
List 3 ideas of Plato
- the theory of forms
- opening an academy
- gave more importance to the state than the individual
List 3 contributions of Aristotle
- founder his own school in Athens in 335BC
- in his book Ethics, he tried to learn what brings people happiness
- tried to collect as many facts as possible and organize them into systems
Who is considered the “Father of History?”
Herodotus
Who is considered the first scientific historian?
Thucydides
What is Pythagoras best known for?
Pythagorean theorem
Who created a code of conduct for doctors and was considered the “Father of Medicine”
Hypocrates
