Chapter 6 Identify Vocab
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- Demosthenes
- Was one of Athens finest orators and led opposition to Philip.
- Plato
- Socrate's student who founded a special school for teaching philosophy in Athens.
- Parthenon
- White marble temple built in ancient Athens in honor of Athena.
- Socrates
- Athenian who taught that education was the key to personal growth and made his students thik for themselves.
- Sophocles
- Famous writer of tragedies most famous for his play Oedipus Rex.
- Praxiteles
- Sculptor who made large formal sculptors appropriate for the gods.
- Alexander the Great
- Philips son who suceeded Philip after his death by invading Persiar and set out to try to conquer the world.
- Pythagoras
- Philosopher who believed everyhtin could be solved in terms of mathematics, famous for his pythagorean theorem.
- Euripides
- Realist writer who showed the pain and misery of war in his tragedies.
- Hellenistic culture
- Combined ideas and values drawn from the Mediterranean and Asia.
- Acropolis
- A high hill that marked the center of ancient Athens.
- Herodotus
- First historian of the Western world, was a writer and story teller, and is called the Father of HIstory.
- Myron
- Great sculptor of The Discus Thrower during the golden age.
- Philip II of Macedon
- King of Macedon in 359 B.C and restored order before he won control of several Athens colonies in northern Greece.
- Hippocrates
- Considered the founder of medical science who wrote many medical studies.
- Aristophanes
- Finest writer of Greek comedies who disliked war and used comedy to make Athens think about the causes and effects of war.
- Aristotle
- Plato's student who founded his own school in Athens and believed knowledge had to be studied logically.
- Phidias
- Great sculptor of the statues of Athena in the Acropolis and Parthenon during the golden age.