The Golden Age of Athens Flashcards
What are they known as?
The Age of Pericles
what is the time?
461-429 BCE
What are the 3 main goals?
- Strengthen democracy
- To build a commercial empire
- To Glorify Athens
But How?
- By hiring more public officials
- By strengthening the navy
What is Iragedy?
Mortals try to become immortal (big no no)
What is Comedy?
Making fun of politics, new ideas etc
What is Sophocles?
author of oedipus
What are fables?
short stories featuring animals that teach a lesson (think Disney)
What are Tell tales?
Embellished/exaggerated stories
What are epics?
Stories with gods, heroic deeds, and of rage scale like Gilgamesh, Illiad, Odyssey
What are the two main assumptions?
- The universe is put together with some order-metaphysics
- You can understand that order through logic and reason
What are socrates?
Teaches by asking questions
What did socrates do?
He was believed to hagge corrupted the youth of Athens, there for was sentenced to death by hemlock (poison). then killed himself.
What is Axiology?
Study of nature of value, valuation and the kingdom of things that are value
What is epidemiology
the theory of knowledge, especially with validity and mortality