Greece Day 6 (Golden Age and Philosophy)

Question 1

What is a Golden Age?

Answer 1

Period of time where great tasks/developments are completed in a nation/civilization

Question 2

What was the first major Golden Age of Greece called?

Answer 2

Golden Age of Athens/Age of Pericles

Question 3

Who ruled Athens during the Golden Age?

Answer 3

Pericles

Question 4

What led to the Golden Age in Athens?

Answer 4

• Removal of the Persians (after the war)
• Growing economic and social institutions
• Development in culture
  -Subsidized (helped pay for) theater admission for the poor

Question 5

Who was Pericles?

Answer 5

Major political leader of Athens during the Golden Age

Question 6

What are some major things that Pericles did?

Answer 6

• Helped form the Delian League
• Strengthened democracy by weakening aristocracy
• Supported actions that led to the Golden Age

Question 7

How do we know about Pericles?

Answer 7

• Thucydides: wrote down a funeral oration given by Pericles
• Plutarch: wrote about Pericles in “Parallel Lives”

Question 8

List developments made during the Golden Age

Answer 8

• philosophy
• medicine
• art & architecture
• drama
• history

Question 9

What are the Greek Orders?

Answer 9

different architectural styles associated with different regions and time periods

not just columns!! they’re just an easy way to distinguish the orders

-Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian
-Dominate the Renaissance Period

Question 10

Doric Order

Answer 10

-oldest
-originated in Doric region
-simple

(represent sturdy masculine frame)

Question 11

Ionic Order

Answer 11

-more intricate
-narrowest
-originated in Ionia

(represent slender feminine frame)

Question 12

Corinthian Order

Answer 12

-most detailed
-design on top is based on a plant
-originated in Corinth

Question 13

What are the two forms of Greek drama? (hint: genres) Define them

Answer 13

Comedies: make fun of someone
Tragedies: serious with unhappy endings

Question 14

Who could participate in Greek drama?

Answer 14

Only men

Question 15

Aristophanes

Answer 15

“Father of Comedy”

Question 16

Aeschylus

Answer 16

“Father of Tragedy”

Question 17

Sophocles

Answer 17

wrote a TON of tragedies
-not many of his plays survived
-wrote Oedipus Rex

Question 18

Euripides

Answer 18

famous for writing tragedies

Question 19

Atomism

Answer 19

philosophy stating that all matter was made up of small indivisible particles called atoms

Question 20

Sophists

Answer 20

professional teachers/tutors who focused on rational thought

Question 21

Branches of philosophy

Answer 21

-physics
-logic
-ethics

Question 22

Socrates

Answer 22

developed the Socratic Method

Question 23

Plato

Answer 23

created the Academy
-taught Aristotle

Question 24

Aristotle

Answer 24

developed the scientific method
-student of Plato

Question 25

Diogenes

Answer 25

-practiced Cynicism
-disagreed with all rules/manners
-spent his life trying to find an honest man

Question 26

Cynicism

Answer 26

belief that people should tell the truth at all times

Question 27

Describe the impact of Greek philosophy (hint: mention Socrates, Aristotle and Plato)

Answer 27

-developed during hard times in an attempt to explain a changing world

-Socrates encouraged Greeks to search for truth
-Plato’s focus on ideal truths influenced Western religion and philosophy
-Aristotle’s focus on observable nature and logical thinking paved the way for the scientific method and other practices

-Greek philosophy became important in Europe during the Renaissance Period