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S.S. 5-1,5-2
Chapter 5, Section 1+2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was Mount Olympus? | The highest mountain is Greece on which the 12 most important Greek Gods live on. |
| What is a myth? | A traditional story about gods and goddesses. |
| Who is Plato? | Socrates's student. |
| What is the Socratic Method? | A method of asking questions to be answered by others. Made by Socrates. |
| What are epics and fables? | Epics are long poems that told heroic deeds. Fables are short stories that teach a lesson. |
| What is the the difference between epics and fables? | Epics are long, fables are short. |
| Who is Pythagoras? | Created the Pythagorean Theorem. |
| What is a Sophist? | Professional teachers from ancient Greece. |
| Who was Homer? | Poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey. |
| What is an Oracle? | A sacred shrine where a priest or priestess spoke for a god or goddess. |
| Who was Thucydides? | The father of history. |
| What is philosophy? | Thinking about thinking. |
| What is a philosopher? | A person who thinks about thinking. |
| Who was Sophocles? | One of the three best-known writers of Greek tragedies. |
| What was the purpose of Greek myths? | They expressed the Greek people's religious beliefs.` |
| What were Greek dramas? | A story told by actors who pretend to be characters in the story. |
| How were the columns put together in Greek architecture? | The marble drums were stacked on top of one another and were joined with wooden pegs. |
| What does Aristotle's book, Politics, talk about? | Talked about him dividing the government into three types. |
| Who was the father of history? | Thucydides. |
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