Greek Culture Flashcards
Name three gods who are always in power in their area of power?
Zeus head or father
Apollo sun poetry
Aphrodite love
What are two ways people try to gain the gods favor?
Festivals
prayer
What was their religious theology
They had none
What god ruled the underworld?
Hades
Where did people go to solicit advice from the gods?
Where was The most famous one?
What characterized the advice given
Oracles
Delphi
Deliberately misleading
When were the first Olympics?
776 BC
What was considered their most famous temple?
Parathenon
What was the purpose for their sculptures?
Ideals
life like
Who is Polyclitus?
Proportion everything had to be life like
What form of drama did they first invent?
Tragedy
The only one complete trilogy still exists- oresteia. Who was its author?
AESCHYLUS
What was Aeschylus better known for other than his plays?
Warrior
What was the story line in the famous play Oedipus Rex?
Son would kill father and would marry his mother
What did Sophocles add to drama that reduce the importance of the chorus?
Third character
What are two innovations introduced by the dramatic to Euripides?
Antiwar
women in a better light