The Golden Age of Athens Flashcards

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What are they known as?

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The Age of Pericles

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what is the time?

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461-429 BCE

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3
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What are the 3 main goals?

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  1. Strengthen democracy
  2. To build a commercial empire
  3. To Glorify Athens
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4
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But How?

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  1. By hiring more public officials
  2. By strengthening the navy
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5
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What is Iragedy?

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Mortals try to become immortal (big no no)

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6
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What is Comedy?

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Making fun of politics, new ideas etc

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7
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What is Sophocles?

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author of oedipus

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8
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What are fables?

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short stories featuring animals that teach a lesson (think Disney)

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9
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What are Tell tales?

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Embellished/exaggerated stories

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What are epics?

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Stories with gods, heroic deeds, and of rage scale like Gilgamesh, Illiad, Odyssey

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11
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What are the two main assumptions?

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  1. The universe is put together with some order-metaphysics
  2. You can understand that order through logic and reason
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12
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What are socrates?

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Teaches by asking questions

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13
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What did socrates do?

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He was believed to hagge corrupted the youth of Athens, there for was sentenced to death by hemlock (poison). then killed himself.

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What is Axiology?

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Study of nature of value, valuation and the kingdom of things that are value

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15
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What is epidemiology

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the theory of knowledge, especially with validity and mortality

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16
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What is logic?

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the study of laws of thought, correct reasoning, valid inference and logical truth

17
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What is metaphysics?

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concepts such as being, knowing, substance and existence

18
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what is political?

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How people should/ do organize themselves, laws, society