Important Greeks Quiz Flashcards
1
Q
Ruled Athens during its golden age
A
Pericles
2
Q
Pericles 3 goals for Athens
A
Strengthen democracy
Strengthen Athenian
Re-build and beautify Athens
3
Q
An isolated hill that can be fortified against attack
A
Acropolis
4
Q
Sculptor who designed the “discus thrower”
A
Myron
5
Q
Great writer of tragic plays
A
Sophocles
6
Q
Greatest of all philosopher
Socratic method
A
Socrates
7
Q
Student of Socrates
Wrote the republic
A
Plato
8
Q
Taught Alexander the Great
A
Aristotle
9
Q
Recorded the Persian Wat
Considered the 1st historian
A
Herodotus
10
Q
Historian who recorded the peloponnesisn war
A
Thucydides
11
Q
Discovered pi
Designed levers and pulleys
A
Archimedes
12
Q
Measured the circumference of the earth
A
Eratosthenes
13
Q
Father of geometry
Pythagorean theorem
A
Euclid
14
Q
Father of medicine
A
Hippocrates
