Question | Answer |
Aritophanes | wrote The Birds and Lysistrata |
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Marathon | 26.2 Miles, Greek messenger tells of Persians defeat |
Pre-Socratics | before Socrates |
Thales | philosopher, thought everything was made of water |
Pythagoras | philosopher, number/physics |
Heraclitus | philosopher, thought universe was always chaning, river quote |
Zeno | Paradoxes |
Socrates | Philosopher |
Plato | apprentice to Socrates |
Aristotle | apprentice to Plato |
Alexander the Great | apprentice to Aristotle |
Academy | school started by Plato |
Lyceum | school started by Aristotle for science |
Allegory of the Cave | story with prisoners |
Dialogues | Socrates discussions |
The Republic | Allegory of the Cave |
Doric | Normal collums |
Ionic | rounded collums |
Corinthian | fancy collum |
Volute | top of an ionic column |
Apollo | God of intelligence, reason, and thinking |
Dionysus | God of tragedy, plays |
Greek Drama | performed for Gods, mostly tragedies |
Aeschylus | wrote the Orestia Trilogy |
Sophocles | most famous playwrite, wrote Oedipus Rex |
Homer | wrote Iliad and Odyssey |
polis | city |
hubris | selfish |
theos | patterns of the universe |
logos | words thought |
kouros | smile sculptor, earliest form |
Athens | capital of Greece, largest city |
Acropolis | mini city, build above for worship |
Parthenon | temple on the acropolis |
Porch of the Maidens | a row of columns that are females |
caryatids | sculpted female figure |
Myron | sculpted Discus |
Polykleitus | wrote Canon, the body book |
Discus Thrower | sculptor made by Myron |
Canon | book about the body made by Polykeitus |
Pericles | general of Athens, gave "Funeral Oration" |
Athenia Values | democracy, individualism, humanism, rationalism |
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