Chapter 8 - Last Section Flashcards
Wealthy boys in Greece had a servant accompany the, to school….. They were called ______.
Pedagogues
Why are the epics the Iliad and the Odyssey important in under standing ancient Greece?
The poems show how life and culture wow in ancient Greece during the dark age.
Shows the values every good hero should have, such as dignity, strength, valor, generosity, and wisdom
The Greeks had an alphabet with _____ letters
24
He was a blind poet that wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Homer (simpson)
The _____ tells the story of the Trojan War.
The ______ recounts the adventures of the Greek hero Odysseus.
Iliad
Odyssey (Odysseus)
What kind of poems are the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Epics
A ____ is a story designed to teach a lesson. The characters usually involved animals acting like humans. They usually did NOT involve the gods.
Fable
A fable usually stated its point in a brief closing statement called the _______.
Moral
He was a Greek slave and the author of many of fables.
Aesop
The Greeks had plays in huge outdoor theaters called ________.
Amphitheaters
There were two types of Greek drama: _____ and ________.
Comedy and tragedy
He wrote a lot of Greek comedies:
He wrote a lot of tragedies:
Aristophanes
Sophocles
_______ usually ended with the downfall of the hero because of a character flaw, such as pride or
jealousy
Tragedies
What did Greek actors wear so the far away crowd could tell what the actors were feeling?
Masks
Who was the king with the Golden Touch?
What is the moral of this story?
Midas
Be careful what you wish for
Midas, the King with a Golden Touch is an exampke of a _______?
Myth
Hippocrates: Archimedes: Euclid: Pythagoras: Eratosthenes: Aristarchus:
Hippocrates: Father of medicine. Doctor oath
Archimedes: advanced the lever and compound pulleys, machines that make the moving of objects easier
Euclid: father of geometry
Pythagoras: studied geometry and came up with an important theorem about triangles
Eratosthenes: drew latitude/longitude. Circumference of the Earth
AriSTARchus: first to suggest Sun was was at center of the universe
This is a carefully tested idea in math
Theorem
A Greek instrument with wooden frame with rows of movable beads used in math
Abacus
Where were the Olympic games held in Greece?
A. Sparta
B. Athens
C. Olympia
D. Mekinos
C. Olympia
This God was the God of music. Art showed him playing this instrument?
Apollo
Lyre (small harp)
Aulos (flute)
Greeks believed a group of 9 goddesses called the ______ presided over each of the arts.
Muses
True or false: Important qualities of Greek art were balance, harmony, simplicity, beauty, and completeness
True
Greeks made three types of columns:
Ionic
Doric
Corinthian
(I Dont Care)
This structure is an enormous temple of white marble on top of the Acropolis. Statue of Goddess Athena was there
Parthenon
A military genius, he spread Greek culture around the world
Alexander the Great
What was one of the most important benefits of Alexander the Great and the spread of Greek (Hellenistic) culture?
brought a common language to the Western world
Common language helped spread the word of Jesus story.
Greek was a common language at the time the New Testament was written.
ESSAY
Two differences between Greek Gids and our God:
Greeks: worshiped gods who were very much like humans. They were just as sinful as humans are.
Bible God: God is perfectly holy. God never sins.
Greeks: thought they needed to make sacrafices to win approval from Gods.
Bible God: only accepts us because of the ultimate sacrafice from Jesus
