Chapter 6 Set 1
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- dramas
- plays containing action or dialogue and involving conflict and emotion
- Golden Age
- a new era of cultural progress
- Euripides
- a great playwright who questioned many old beliefs and ideas
- Philosophy
- the study of basic questions of reality and of human existence.
- Phidias
- One of history's greatest sculptors who created the statues of Athena that decorated the Acropolis and the Parthenon
- Praxiteles
- a sculptor who lived about 100 years after Phidias who sculpted figures that were more lifelike and natural in form and size. Above all, he expressed the Greek admiration for the beauty of the human body
- Plato
- A wealthy young aristocrat and the greatest of Socrates's students who founded the Academy and wrote dialogues or imaginary discussions among several people.
- Herodotus
- the first historian of the Western world
- Sophocles
- a writer of tragedies who wrote Oedipus Rex
- Myron
- One of history's greatest sculptors who sculpted "The Discus Thrower"
- Thucydides
- Greek historian who wrote History of the Peloponnesian War
- tragedies
- a drama in which the main character struggles against fate, or events
- Socrates
- one of the most important thinker of the new era who taught that education was the key to personal growth.
- Pythagoras
- a philosopher who believed that everything could be explained in terms of mathematics
- Aristotle
- one of plato's students at the Academy who believed that every field of knowledge had to be studied logically
- Aristocracy
- a government ruled by an upper class
- How art expressed Greek ideals
- It showed that the Greeks glorified humans, had great pride in their city-states, believed in harmony, balance, order, and moderation, and their belief in combing usefulness with beauty
- Parthenon
- a white marble temple built in honor of Athena
- Hippocrates
- considered to be the founder of medical science
- Aristophanes
- the finest writer of Greek comedies who was known for his sharp wit.