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Greek Unit Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Socrates | -famous teacher -taught buy questioning -arrested for corrupting youth -committed suicide -"the unexamined life is not worth living." |
| Plato | -student of Socrates -wrote "The Republic" -thought only smart people should rule -hubris:arrogance |
| Aristotle | -philosopher who questioned nature of the worlds -teacher of Alexander the Great -taught the scientific method: hypothesis -Plato's student |
| Solon | -brought democracy to Athens -outlawed debt slavery |
| Draco | -Greek tyrant -Developed legal codes based on equal treatment for all -known for harsh punishments |
| Cleisthenes | -introduced reforms to break up the power of nobility -began council of 500 -freedom of speech -ostracism -jury |
| Pericles | -leader during Athens's "Golden Age" -extended democracy -financed artists, writers, architects -father of algebra -rebuilt Athens |
| Sophocles | -writer -wrote "Oedipus Rex" -wrote dramas and tragedies -psychological plays |
| Aristophanes | -wrote the first comedy -slapstick and crude humor |
| Homer | -blind poet -epics -Iliad -Odyssey |
| Herodotus | -historian who believed in accurate recording of events -wrote first accurate account of Persian war -father of history |
| Thucydides | -learn history to understand mistakes as history repeats itself -recorded what he had seen -wrote about Peloponnesian war |
| Aeschylus | -wrote tragedies -Orenstein -tragedy and comedy masks -wrote 80 plays |
| Euclid | -father of geometry |
| Hippocrates | -father of medicine -believed Ina healthy diet -Hippocratic oath of modern doctors -believed in exercise and good personal hygiene |
| Archimedes | -pi -invented a steam engine, pump and levers |
| Phidias | -sculptor -statue of Athena -worked on Parthenon |
| Pythagoras | -theory of right triangles (Pythagorean theory) |
| Pantheon | Family of gods |
| Parthenon | Temple dedicated to Athena in the center of Athens |
| Oracle | Person who predicts the future |
| 3 Persian emperors | Darius, Xerxes, Cyrus |
| Empire | Country who's conquered other countries |
| Monarchy | Government with single person ruling and where power is passed down the family |
| Aristocracy | Government ruled by a small group of noble, landowning families |
| Theocracy | Government in which ruler is viewed as a divine figure |
| Citizen | -18 or older -man -free |
| Mount Olympus | All the gods and goddesses were said to live here |
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