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Gifts of the World and The Hellenistic Age Flashcards

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Aeschylus

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Earliest of Greek Dramatists

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The Persians

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Greek Play written by Aeschylus on the Persian Wars

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Agamemnon

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Greatest of Aeschylus’s plays

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Sophocles

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Athenian dramatist told many of the ancient legends

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Antigone

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Famous play of Sophocles

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Euripides

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Greek Dramatist who questioned Athenian Customs and beliefs

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The Trojan women

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Play Play by Euripides describing the misery of war

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Aristophanes

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Greek Playwright who wrote comedies

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Pheidias

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Greek Sculptor who created the Parthenon

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Praxiteles

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Greek Sculptor who created Hermes

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Beloved Pan, And all ye other gods who haunt this plays…

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Socrates prayer to Pan

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Classic

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judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality and outstanding of its kind.

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Serenity

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the state of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled.

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Effeminate

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having or showing characteristics regarded as typical of a woman; unmanly

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Cast

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An object made by shaping metal or similar in mold

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Socrates

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Greek Philosopher

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Xanthippe

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Wife of Socrates

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Sophists

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Teachers in Athens who established schools

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The apology of socrates

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Socrates defense of speech at his trial

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Crito

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Devoted follower of Socrates, Took Socrates wife home

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Apollodorus

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Devoted follower of Socrates

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I showed not by mere were words but my actions that I did not care a straw for death but that I did care very much indeed about doing wrong

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Socrates

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Shod

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Having shoes

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Swathed

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wrap in several layers of fabric.

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Calumnies

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the making of false and defamatory statements in order to damage someone’s reputation; slander.

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Gaoler

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a person in charge of a jail or of the prisoners in it.

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Philosophy

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Greek word meaning love of wisdom

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Thales of Miletus

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Earliest of Greek Philosophers

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Pythagoras of Samos

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Greek Philosopher taught that the world was round

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Plato

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Greek Philosopher: pupil of socrates

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The republic

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Famous writing of Plato setting forth what an Ideal state would be

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Aristotle

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Greek Philosopher pupil of plato, called the father of natural science

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Politics

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Aristotle’s writing about the ideal greek state

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herodotus

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Earliest of Greek Historians, called the father of history

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Thucydides

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Greatest of Greek Historians

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The hellenica

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Thucydides account of the Peloponnesian War

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Plutarch

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Wrote parallel lives of the Greeks and Romans

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Parallel lives of the Greeks and Romans

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Biographies of famous greeks and romans with comparisons; written by Plutarch

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The things which are seen are temporal….

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St. Paul

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Credulous

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having or showing too great a readiness to believe things.

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hellenic age

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Greek History from early governments until Alexander

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Hellenistic age

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Greek history beginning with Alexander until Roman Empire

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Alexandria

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City found by Alexander

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The Pharos

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Alexandrian lighthouse one of the seven wonders of the world

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Ptolemy soter

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General of Alexander ruler of Egypt

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Ptolemy Philadelphus

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Ptolemy Soter’s son; creator of the Pharaohs

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Temple of the Muses

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Famous museum of Alexandria

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Callimachus

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first librarian

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The septuagint

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Greek Translation of the Old Testament

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Euclid

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Greek Mathematician, the father of geometry

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Archimedes

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Scientist and inventor

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Achaean League

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Federation of states joined for the protecc of greece

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A big book is a big nuisance

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Callimachus

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Give me a place to stand on and I will move the earth

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Archimedes

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Helix

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an object having a three-dimensional shape like that of a wire wound uniformly in a single layer around a cylinder or cone, as in a corkscrew or spiral staircase.

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Domestic

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relating to the running of a home or to family relations.

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What were the three qualities that the Greeks gave to the mind of a man? WHere can they be seen in Greek History

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The Greeks gave mankind the love of freedom, the love of truth, and the love of beauty. These things can e found in the political history of Greece, as well as in their literature and art

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What did the Greeks mean by “a love of truth”

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They did not mean truthfulness as in speech without errors but a desire to see all things clearly. They wanted the spirit that could judge right from wrong without prejudice or passion and knew its own limitations and acknowledged what it did not know

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How did Socrates oppose the sophists? Why did he do this

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Socrates opposed the sophists by teaching without a school having no specific classes and taking no pay. This is the opposite of what the Sophists did. He did this to show that an increase in information was fatal to real thinking

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How did Socrates show the importance of truth in all things

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Socrates talked to and questioned everyone and tried to show people what real knowledge was. He showed people who listened t him the evil that came from pretending to know what one did not know and the first step in his teaching was to make them realize their ignorance.

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According to the apology of Socrates why was Socrates unpopular and accused of Impiety

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Socrates searched to find a man wiser than himself but those whom he questoned became angry at him because they would not acknowledge their ignorance

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How is our modern understanding of science included in the ancient Greek term Philosophy

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The ancient Greeks were concerned with questions that modern science is also concerned with. They were concerned with finding out the origins of things

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Describe Plato’s the Republic

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The Republic is a picture of Plato’s ideal state should be

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On what subjects did Aristotle write

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Aristotle wrote on many subjects including astronomy, mathematics, biology, and botany. He also wrote on politics

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How did the Greeks write history as it had never been written before

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Greek writers were not concerned with merely writing events. Instead, they made an inquiry to the events

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How did the events in Thucydides life allow him to write the history of the Peloponnesian war

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Thucydiddes arrived late as a general to fight the Spartans at Amphipols. Because he was exiled in consequence. It was the banishment that gave him the opportunity to write history

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Why are Greek Dramas among the classics of the world

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The Greek dramas are the outward expression of the love of beauty and self-control that is one of the priceless gifts of Greece to the world

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WHo were some of the main dramatists and what are the titles of their plays

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Aeschylus: The Persians, Agamemnon, The libation bearers, the Furies
Sophocles: Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus
Euripides: The Trojan Women, Electra, Iphigenia in Taurus
Aristophenes:

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How is the art of the ancient Greeks different from a modern understanding of art

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In modern times many have viewed art as a luxury, only available to the rich, and something that doesn’t have much to do with everyday life. But art is not just for the rich; The ancient Greeks had a vision of what kind of world they would make and art is the concrete expression of that vision in different forms

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What were the Greeks aiming at in their art

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The Greeks were trying to give outward expression to those qualities of the mind and spirit which they as people prized so highly beauty, self control, harmony, and restraint

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In what ways did Alexander spread the knowledge of Greece

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Wherever he [assed with his army alexander founded cities colonies of Greeks. These men spoke gree, worshipped Greek Gods, etc.

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What were the two periods of Greek Civilization and what did each include

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The first period of Greek civilization was the Hellenic age. IT included the early experiment of Greek Governments fighting with the persians, the great days of athens, nd the pelo. war. It ended with the beginning of Alexander’s reign.

The second was the Hellenistic age. It began with Alexander and included the spread of Greek ideals until the Roman empire

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Why was there a need for copyists at the Library

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As the museum became famous,l there was a great need for additional copies works of literature

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Describe some of Archimedes inventions

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He developed a helix, which was able to move a huge ship down to sea. He also created wr engines, etc

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Describe the Achaean League

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The Achaean League was a federation of States with omne central government

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