Greece Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| Aritophanes | wrote The Birds and Lysistrata |
| 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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