Chp 4 Greek Civilization 6th Flashcards
The Illiad talks about what
The Trojan war
What was Zeus called
The king
What were Aesop’s Fables
They are fables where animals speak and act like humans. Usually ending with a moral or useful truth
Example: “ The tortoise and the hare”
Myth
A traditional story that explains the practices or beliefs of people, or something in the natural world.
Oracle
Sacred shrine where a priest or priestess spoke for a god or goddess
Fable
The story meant to teach a lesson
Oral tradition
The custom of passing a long stories by speech
Epic
A story usually with a hero meant to teach a lesson
Sophocles
He found sophists
Taught courage and understanding
What is a Parthenon
A temple dedicated to a god or goddess
What were sophists
Greek teachers of philosophy, reasoning, and public speaking truth
Information about Socrates
He lived in Athens he was not a sophist and he invented the Socratic method
He believed in absolute truth
The student was Plato
Socrates
What did Plato do
Came up with philosopher kings
New student was Aristotle
Plato’s student
What did Aristotle create
Lyceum the first school to teach knowledge
Aristotle made the “ The golden mean”. What was it
The perfect balance in life
What three groups did Aristotle divide the government
Monarchy oligarchy and democracy
Did Aristotle believed the best government was
A combination of monarchy oligarchy and democracy
Herodotus what’s the father of what
History
Pythagoras was known for math what did he make
The Pythagorean theorem
On a triangle A squared plus B squared equals C squared
Hippocrates was. Father of what
Medicine
Philip the second was the leader of what
Macedonia
Alexander the great takes over Macedonia at what age
Age 20
When Alexander the great was 16 what did he
Attack Persia
When did Alexander’s attack on North to Mesopotamia at Guatemala
331 BC
At what age did Alexander die by crossing the desert when he reached Babylon
When he was 32
Zeno created what
Stoics
Stoics believed that you should not be guided by emotion. Why
It does not equal happiness
Happiness comes from
Reason
Eratosthenes was a librarian that discovered what
The earth is round and is much smaller than the sun
