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Unit 5 Ch 9 Sec 4
Greek Achievements
Term | Definition |
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sculpture | the art of making a 2 or 3 dimensional form |
architecture | the science of building |
Parthenon | ancient Greek temple of Athena located on the Acropolis in Athens |
drama | plays performed by actors or singers |
Thucydides | one of the greatest Greek historians |
philosophy | the study of the power of the human mind to think, explain, and understand life |
Socrates | great Greek philosopher who taught his students to question their own beliefs; he was sentenced to death for his teaching methods |
Plato | student of Socrates and philosopher who created The Academy and wrote the Republic |
Aristotle | philosopher who was a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great |
logic | using the mind to make inferences; the idea that you can use facts that you know to figure out new facts |
reason | clear and ordered thinking used by philosophers |
Hippocrates | father of medicine known for his ideas about how doctors should behave |