Chapter 6 Set 1
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- Phidias
- sculpted 'Athena' and 'Zeus' in Olympia
- Hippocrates
- founder of medical science who wrote 60-70 medical studies
- aristocracy
- government ruled by an upper class
- dramas
- plays containing action or dialogue and involving conflict and emotion
- Aristophanes
- finest writer of Greek comedies
- Praxiteles
- created more lifelike and natural sculptures in form and size
- Pythagoras
- philosopher who believed everything could be taught/explained in terms of mathematics
- How art expressed Greek ideals
- glorified human beings--symbolized Greeks' Pride in their city-states--expressed Greek beliefs in harmony, balance, order and moderation--expressed in combining beauty and usefulness
- Golden Age
- era of cultural progress in Greece (400 B.C.)
- Myron
- sculpted 'The Discus Thrower'
- Thucydides
- Greek historian who believed studying the past helps to understand human nature
- tragedies
- the main character struggles against fate or events
- Aristotle
- one of Plato's students who made limited democracy
- Euripedes
- great playwright who questioned many old beliefs and ideas
- Plato
- wealthy young aristocrat who was one of Socrates's greatest students--taught the "Theory of Forms"
- Parthenon
- white marble temple built in ancient Athens in honor of Athena
- Herodotus
- first historian of the Western world -- Father of History
- philosophy
- study of the basic questions of reality and human existence
- Sophocles
- writer of tragedies who defended many Greek values
- Socrates
- one of the most important thinkers who taught that education was the key to personal growth