Gifts of the World and The Hellenistic Age Flashcards
Aeschylus
Earliest of Greek Dramatists
The Persians
Greek Play written by Aeschylus on the Persian Wars
Agamemnon
Greatest of Aeschylus’s plays
Sophocles
Athenian dramatist told many of the ancient legends
Antigone
Famous play of Sophocles
Euripides
Greek Dramatist who questioned Athenian Customs and beliefs
The Trojan women
Play Play by Euripides describing the misery of war
Aristophanes
Greek Playwright who wrote comedies
Pheidias
Greek Sculptor who created the Parthenon
Praxiteles
Greek Sculptor who created Hermes
Beloved Pan, And all ye other gods who haunt this plays…
Socrates prayer to Pan
Classic
judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality and outstanding of its kind.
Serenity
the state of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled.
Effeminate
having or showing characteristics regarded as typical of a woman; unmanly
Cast
An object made by shaping metal or similar in mold
Socrates
Greek Philosopher
Xanthippe
Wife of Socrates
Sophists
Teachers in Athens who established schools
The apology of socrates
Socrates defense of speech at his trial
Crito
Devoted follower of Socrates, Took Socrates wife home
Apollodorus
Devoted follower of Socrates
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
Socrates
Shod
Having shoes
Swathed
wrap in several layers of fabric.
Calumnies
the making of false and defamatory statements in order to damage someone’s reputation; slander.
Gaoler
a person in charge of a jail or of the prisoners in it.
Philosophy
Greek word meaning love of wisdom
Thales of Miletus
Earliest of Greek Philosophers
Pythagoras of Samos
Greek Philosopher taught that the world was round
Plato
Greek Philosopher: pupil of socrates
The republic
Famous writing of Plato setting forth what an Ideal state would be
Aristotle
Greek Philosopher pupil of plato, called the father of natural science
Politics
Aristotle’s writing about the ideal greek state
herodotus
Earliest of Greek Historians, called the father of history
Thucydides
Greatest of Greek Historians
The hellenica
Thucydides account of the Peloponnesian War
Plutarch
Wrote parallel lives of the Greeks and Romans
Parallel lives of the Greeks and Romans
Biographies of famous greeks and romans with comparisons; written by Plutarch
The things which are seen are temporal….
St. Paul
Credulous
having or showing too great a readiness to believe things.
hellenic age
Greek History from early governments until Alexander
Hellenistic age
Greek history beginning with Alexander until Roman Empire
Alexandria
City found by Alexander
The Pharos
Alexandrian lighthouse one of the seven wonders of the world
Ptolemy soter
General of Alexander ruler of Egypt
Ptolemy Philadelphus
Ptolemy Soter’s son; creator of the Pharaohs
Temple of the Muses
Famous museum of Alexandria
Callimachus
first librarian
The septuagint
Greek Translation of the Old Testament
Euclid
Greek Mathematician, the father of geometry
Archimedes
Scientist and inventor
Achaean League
Federation of states joined for the protecc of greece
A big book is a big nuisance
Callimachus
Give me a place to stand on and I will move the earth
Archimedes
Helix
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.
Domestic
relating to the running of a home or to family relations.
What were the three qualities that the Greeks gave to the mind of a man? WHere can they be seen in Greek History
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
What did the Greeks mean by “a love of truth”
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
How did Socrates oppose the sophists? Why did he do this
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
How did Socrates show the importance of truth in all things
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.
According to the apology of Socrates why was Socrates unpopular and accused of Impiety
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
How is our modern understanding of science included in the ancient Greek term Philosophy
The ancient Greeks were concerned with questions that modern science is also concerned with. They were concerned with finding out the origins of things
Describe Plato’s the Republic
The Republic is a picture of Plato’s ideal state should be
On what subjects did Aristotle write
Aristotle wrote on many subjects including astronomy, mathematics, biology, and botany. He also wrote on politics
How did the Greeks write history as it had never been written before
Greek writers were not concerned with merely writing events. Instead, they made an inquiry to the events
How did the events in Thucydides life allow him to write the history of the Peloponnesian war
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
Why are Greek Dramas among the classics of the world
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
WHo were some of the main dramatists and what are the titles of their plays
Aeschylus: The Persians, Agamemnon, The libation bearers, the Furies
Sophocles: Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus
Euripides: The Trojan Women, Electra, Iphigenia in Taurus
Aristophenes:
How is the art of the ancient Greeks different from a modern understanding of art
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
What were the Greeks aiming at in their art
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
In what ways did Alexander spread the knowledge of Greece
Wherever he [assed with his army alexander founded cities colonies of Greeks. These men spoke gree, worshipped Greek Gods, etc.
What were the two periods of Greek Civilization and what did each include
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
Why was there a need for copyists at the Library
As the museum became famous,l there was a great need for additional copies works of literature
Describe some of Archimedes inventions
He developed a helix, which was able to move a huge ship down to sea. He also created wr engines, etc
Describe the Achaean League
The Achaean League was a federation of States with omne central government
