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Question | Answer |
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student of Socrates who wrote the Republic | Plato |
They believed that the human mind could understand everything. | Philosophers |
He was considered to be the greatest historian of the ancient world; he wrote the history of the Peloponnesian War | Thucydides |
This is a way of teaching that is still used today. | Socratic Method |
A traveling professional teacher | Sophist |
He taught that the universe was governed by the same laws as music and numbers. | Pythagoras |
This word comes from the Greek word that means "love of wisdom". | philosophy |
He was an Athenian sculptor whose true love was philosophy. | Socrates |
This scientist and philosopher researched over 158 governments to find the best one. He wrote the book "Politics". | Aristotle |
The father of history | Herodotus |
A long poem about heroic deeds | epic |
A short tale that teaches a lesson | fable |
a priest or priestess who could tell the future | oracle |
the highest mountain in Greece, home to the gods and goddesses | Mt. Olympus |
a traditional story about gods and goddesses | myth |
The Greeks expressed their _____________ through mythology. | Religious beliefs |
He wrote many poems about heroic deeds, including the Iliad. | Homer |
These are the two types of drama that the Greeks performed as part of their religious festivals. | comedies and tragedies |
Name the three best-known authors of Greek tragedies. | Aeschuylus, Euripedes, and Sophocles |
Name(and be able to identify!) the three types of columns Greeks used in their architecture. | Ionic, Doric, and Corinthian |