Chapter 6 Set 1
Terms
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- Tragedies
- forms of Greek in drama in which the main character struggles against fates/events
- Phidias
- sculptor, golden age; created the statues of Athena that decorated Acropolis and the Parthenon & statue of Zeus at the Temple of Olympia
- Herodtus
- was the 1st historian of the Western world
- Aristocracy
- government in which ruler holds absolute power
- Thucydides
- historian, famous for ' History of the Peloponnesian War'—believed that studying the past helps us to understand human nature
- Plato
- wealthy young aristocrat and one of the greatest students of Socrates; founded an Academy
- Aristophanes
- finest writer of comedies, known for sharp wit
- Hippocrates
- lived in 460-377BC and founder of medicine and is said to have written 60-70 medical studies
- Dramas
- plays containing action/dialogue and usually involving conflict and emotion
- Pythagoras
- philosopher who believed that everything could be explained in terms of mathematics
- Socrates
- Athenian thinker; taught that education was the key to personal growth
- golden age
- 400BC Greece entered a new era of cultural progress
- Euripides
- more realistic write of tragedies and he questioned many old beliefs and ideas
- Myron
- sculptor during golden age and created the Discus Thrower
- Parthenon
- white marble temple built in ancient Athens in honor of Athena
- Philosophy
- study of basic questions of reality and human existence
- How art expressed Greek ideas
- glorified human beings, symbolizes Greeks' pride in their city states, expressed Greek beliefs in harmony, balance, order, and moderation, and expressed the Greek belief in combining beauty & usefulness
- Praxiteles
- lived about 100 yrs. after Phidias & expressed the Greek admiration for the beauty of the human body—sculpted more lifelike and natural in form and size
- Aristotle
- one of Plato's students in the academy as a young man and founded his own school in Athens and 335BC
- Sophocles
- defended many traditional Greek values