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How did the greeks express their love of beauty and meaning?
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Fine arts, art, painting, sculpting, writing plays,
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How did the Greeks honor winners of the Olympic games?
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Gave them olive leave head wreaths and had a parade in their honor
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During the mid-400's b.c., greek cuture reached its culutral peak particularly in _______. This perioc has been called the ______age. artists excelled in _____ sculpture, and painting. they created works characterized by beautiful simplicity and graceful balance, an artistic style we now call ______
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Athens, golden age, playwriting, classical
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_____ said the greeks were "lovers of the beautiful" and under his rule the ______ was build
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Pericles, Parthenon
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Place of worship is called a
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sanctuary
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where did the greeds worship their gods?
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temples, outdoors and in homes
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to the greeks the _____ represented the ideal of "nothing to excess" an ideal sometimes called ______ or the midpoint between two extremes
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Parthenon, Golden mean
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name four types of greek pottery
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krater, leythos, amphora, kylix
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most greet pottery from the classical period is either _____ on a black background or
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red, black on red background
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name three artists during the Golden Age of Greece
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Myron, Phidias, Praxiteles
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Wat was the socratic method
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Method of teaching that endouraged students to clear away mistaken ideas and to find the truth
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IN 399 b.c. socrates is accussed of wat
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"corrupting the young" and "not worshipping the gods worshipped by the state"
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____ is born in Athens, he becane a teacher and opened his ______, a school that remained until 529 a.d.
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Plato, Academy
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_____recorded_____ between Socrates and his fellow athenians
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?, dialogue
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plato wrote the earliest book on political science called _______
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The Republic
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The Republic presented a plan for what he considered the ________________ and government
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ideal society
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He wrote the book Politics
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Aristotle
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Aristotle opened a school in athens called the
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Lyceum
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__________ was the first Greek Historian
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Herodotus
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_________ wrote Historia which is about _______
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Herodutus, Persian Wars
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Thucydides wrote about the ___
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Peloponnesian war
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_______ Came up with the idea of a solid particle of matter so small that it was both invisible and not divisible he named this particle the _____
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Democtitus, Atom
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_________ formulated a theory that water was the basic substance of which everything in the world is made and he fortold ______
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Thales, solar eclipses
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________the god of wine and fertility. The greeks were the first people to write and perform plays, which they presented ______ a year at festival to honor_____
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Dionysus, twice, Dionysus
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Aeschylus wrote_____
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Oresteia
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________ a play by Aeschylul shows how the consequences of one's deeds are carried down from one generation to another
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Oresteia
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__________, a play by Sophocles....about Oedipus kiliing his father and marrying his mother
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Oedipus Rex
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__________ wrote the Trojan Women...which shows that war does not prove anything...in his plays he focused on the qualities hman beings possess that bring disaster on themselves
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Euripides
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_______ a play written by Aristophanes where he makes fun of people in athens
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The Clouds
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The olympic games started in ____b.c. at _____ in honor of _____
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776, Olympia, Zeus
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The greeks believed the human mind was capable of understanding ____
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Everything
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________means the seeking of wisdom or truth
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Philosophy
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Those who study philosophy are
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Philosophers
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The science of reasoning is ___
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Logic
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Pro. teachers, sophists, meaning ____ claimed they could find the answers to _____ they rejected the belief that the gods influenced ________. did not believe in absolute moral and legal standars, instead, they asserted that _________ nd that truth is diff for each individual
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"knowers", All questions, Human behavior, "man is the measure of all things"
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_____ born in 470 b.c. in athens he was a sculptor by trade. he believed in _________ truth rather than relative truth.
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Socrates, absolute
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______ tried to explain in mathematical terms as he developed geometry theorems and taught the _______
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Pythagorus, ?
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______is called the "father of medicine"
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Hippocrates
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WHat three things did the "father of medicine" advocate for patients
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Proper hygien, sound diet, plenty of rest
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Traveling pro. teacher of relative truth_____
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sophists
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author of the Republic
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Plato
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Capital of Alexander's empire
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Babylon
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Appealed in vain for greek cooperation
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Demostheues
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Narrow-necked pot
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Leythos
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What is a pentathalon
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event w/ 5 events: running, jumping, discus, wrestling, and javelen
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Designed parthenons sculptures
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phidias
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wide-mouthed jar
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krater
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critic of materialism
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diogenes
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developed the syllogism
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aristotle
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three greek sculptors
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Mryon, Phidias, praxiteles
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he advocated rest hygien and good diet
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hippocrates
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son of Olympias
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alexander
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three domain rulers
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Ptolemy, Selecus, antigonus
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what is the temple to athena
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parthenon
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battled the Seleucids for Jerusalem
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Juda Maccabbees
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Name a comic playwrite
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Aerostophanes
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mathematician who explained triangles
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pythagoras
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Philosopher who was sentenced to death
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socrates
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student of plato, tutor of alexandria
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aristotle
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a teacher using the socratic method would
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ask questions and make student logically explain their answers
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Ptolemy and his descentants ruled
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egypt, libya, partof syria
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Name thre greek tragedians
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aeschylus, sophocles and euripides
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the alexandrian author of The Elements of Geometry was
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euclid
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the construction of the perthenon began in
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447 b.c.
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the translation of the hebrew bible in to greek was done by jewish scholars in
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Alexandria
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the code of conduct still practiced by modern drs. was developed by
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Hippocrates
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unlike much other greek pottery a kylix was often decorated with
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scenes of every day life
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three truths of aristotle
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studied w/ plato for 4 yrs.
tutored alexander wrote/edited more than 200 boooks |
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the oresteia illustrated how
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the consequenses of ones deeds are carried down from generation to generation
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the sculptures of praxiteles reflected
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changes that occurred in greek life
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thucydides historical technique was revolutionary b/c he
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offered explinations of why things happened
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after defeating the persians at the Granicus rver and at Issus, alexander and his troops headed or trutrned to
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babylon
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at his trial socrates argued that
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a person who knew what was right would always do what was right and intellectual search for the truth was the most imp. thing in the world
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the first greek scientist, thales, formulated a theory that
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water was the basic substance of which everything in the world is made
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the earliest greek plays tended to be
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tragedies
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name three things that alexander the great accomplished
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conquered Persians at granicus R. and one at Issus, captured seaports of phoenicia
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the first historian to try to separate fact from legend was
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Herodotus
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greeces golden age occured the mid
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400's b.c.
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name three things that characterized the hellenistic age
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art, literature, science, medicine, math
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the architecture of the perthenon was notable for itts
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sculptures and beauty
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subject of Historia
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Persian wars
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the hellenistic philosophy advocating the avoidance of both joy and pain is called
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Epicureanism
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sophist teaching can be characterized as
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"man is the measure of all things''
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mixture of greek and middle eastern culture that formed during and after alexander is called
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hellenistic cutlure
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macedonian king who had conquered most of greece by 338 b.c. was
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Phillip II
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plato preferred the spartan gov. to that athenian b/c
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he thot the state was more imp. than the ind.
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three true things of olympics
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in olympia, every 4 yrs, in honor of zeus, pentathalon
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