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17 Cards in this Set
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What did Aeschylus do? |
He was a writer of tragedies (ex. The Persians); Drama |
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What did Sophocles do? |
He wrote extremely famous tragedies (ex. Oedipus Rex); Drama |
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What did Homer do? |
Created epic poems (ex. Iliad & Odyssey); Poetry |
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What did Herodotus do? |
Recorded history but noted weather he was there or if he heard about it (primary vs. secondary citing); History |
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What did Thucydides do? |
History of the Peloponnesian War; believed studying the past helps us understand human nature and tried to be accurate &fair; History |
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What did Phidias do? |
Statues of Athena in Parthenon & statue of Zeus at Temple of Olympia; Sculpture |
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What type of columns were in Greece? |
Doric (Parthenon), Ionian, & Corinthian; Architecture |
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What did Archimedes do? |
Compound pulley, law of buoyancy; Science |
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What did Hippocrates do? |
Medicine; Hippocratic oath (medical code of ethics still taken by doctors today); Science |
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What did Euclid do? |
Geometry; Mathemtics |
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What did Pythagoras do? |
Pythagorean Theorem: c2 = a2 + b2; Mathemtics |
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What did Socrates do? |
Socratic method of teaching through questioning; accused of denying existence of many Greek gods, found guilty, sentenced to death through drinking Hemlock (poison); Philosophy |
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What did Plato do? |
Student of Socrates; founded the Academy, a special school for teaching philosophy in Athens; wrote The Republic (philosophy on government - aristocracy ideal, but of wisdom, not wealth); Philosophy |
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What did Aristotle do? |
Student of Plato; scientific method; teacher of Alexander the Great; Philosophy |
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When was the Golden Age of Pericles? |
In between Persian & Peloponnesian War |
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Who was Pericles? |
Government and military |
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What did Pericles do? |
Extended democracy to foreign males (females and slaves still couldn't vote); most males had equal voices; Rebuilds Athens after the Persian War |
