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Memoria Press The Book of the Ancient Greeks > Lessons 21-27 > Flashcards

Lessons 21-27 Flashcards

1
Q

chief city of Boeotia, in Greece

A

Thebes

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2
Q

person who wanders place to place without a job

A

vagabond

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3
Q

funeral rites

A

obsequies

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4
Q

speeches of Demosthenes against Philip of Macedonia

A

Philippics

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5
Q

king of Macedonia; father of Alexander the Great

A

Philip

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6
Q

old term for a Muslim

A

Mohammedan

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7
Q

separation resulting from hostility; alienation

A

estrangement

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8
Q

called the “Father of Natural Science”

A

Aristotle

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9
Q

“I, …, consider the whole of they treasure, and the whole of they land, to be mine.”

A

Alexander the Great

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10
Q

date of Alexander’s death

A

323 B.C.

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11
Q

Socrates’ defense speech at his trial

A

the Apology of Socrates

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12
Q

having or wearing shoes

A

shod

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13
Q

“I showed, not by mere words but by my actions, that I did not care a straw for death: but that I did care very much indeed about doing wrong.”

A

Socrates

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14
Q

showing too great a readiness to believe things; gullible

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15
Q

wrote Parallel Lives of the Greeks and Romans

A

Plutarch

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16
Q

Aristotle’s writing about the ideal Greek state

A

Politics

17
Q

Greek Philosopher; pupil of Socrates

A

Plato

18
Q

“The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.”

A

St. Paul

19
Q

the state of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled

A

serenity

20
Q

an object made by shaping metal or similar material in a mold

A

cast

21
Q

“Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in teh inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be at one.”

A

Socrates’ prayer to Pan

22
Q

lighthouse in Alexandria; one of the seven wonders of the world

A

the Pharos

23
Q

first librarian

A

Callimachus

24
Q

Greek history beginning with Alexander until Roman Empire

A

Hellenistic Age

25
Q

famous museum of Alexandria

A

Temple of the Muses

26
Q

scientist and inventor

A

Archimedes

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