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People places and…..
Greek stuff I have to study
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aristotle’s writing abt the ideal Greek state | Politics |
| Earliest of the Greek historians called the father of history | Herodotus |
| Scientist and inventor | Archimedes |
| Greek word mean love of wisdom | Philosophy |
| Greatest of Aeschylus plays | Agamemnon |
| City founded by Alexander | Alexandria |
| Chief city of Boeotia in Greece | Thebes |
| Famous poet of Thebes | Pindar |
| Biographies of famous Greeks and Romans with comparisons | Parallel live of the Greeks and Romans |
| Federation of states joined for the protection of Greece | Achaean league |
| Famous general of Thebes | epaminodas |
| Mythical king of Thebes | Oedipus |
| Oedipus’ daughter | Antigone |
| Taught that the world was round and made advancements in mathematics | Pythagoras |
| Greek sculptor who created Hermes | Praxiteles |
| Greek sculptor who created the Parthenon | Pheidias |
| Greek philosopher pupil of Socrates | Plato |
| Devoted follower of Socrates | Crito |
| Teachers in Athens who established schools | Sophists |
| Oracle consulted by alexander | Zeus Ammon |
| Wrote parallel lives of the Greeks and Romans | Plutarch |
| Play by Euripides describing the misery of war | The Trojan woman |
| Earliest of Greek dramatists | Aeschylus |
| Greek translation of the Old Testament | Septuagint |
| Greatest of Greek historians | Thucydides |
| First librarian | Callimachus |
| Epaminodas’s devoted friend | Pelopidas |
| Creator of the Pharos | Ptolemy philadelphus |
| King of Macedonia, father of Alexander the great | Phillip of Macedonia |
| Greek history beginning with Alexander until Roman empire | Hellenistic age |
| Greek dramatist told many of the ancient legends | Sophocles |
| Greek History from early governments until Alexander | Hellenic age |
| Famous writing of plato, setting forth what is ideal state would be | The republic |
| Wife of Socrates | Xanthippe |
| Friend of Alexander murdered by Alexander | Clidus |
| Famous play Sophocles | Antigone |
| Socrates defense speech at his trail | The apology of Socrates |
| Greek philosopher who was cynical toward Alexander | Diogenes |
| Greatest of Athenian orators | Demosthenes |
| Greek playwright, who wrote comedies | Aristophanes |
| Call the father of natural science | Aristotle |
| Greek mathematician the father of geometry geometry | Euclid |
| Alexandria light house one of the seven wonders of the world | The Pharos |
| Alexander’s general and ruler of Egypt | Ptolemy Souter |
| Famous museum of Alexandria | Temple of the muses |
| Greek play written by Aeschylus on the Persian wars | The Persians |
| King of Macedonia, Phillips son | Alexander |
| Opponent of Demosthenes | Aechines |
| Thucydides’ account of the Peloponnesian war. | The Hellenica |
| Speeches of Demosthenes against Philippa Macedonia | Philippics |
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