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31 Cards in this Set
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What is the Golden Age of Greece?
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A new era of cultural progress in Athens
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____________ was a white marble temple built in honor of Athena
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the Parthenon
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Who was Myron?
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one of history's greatest sculptors of the Golden Age & sculpted "the Discus Thrower"
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Who was Phidias?
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one of history's greates sculptors of the Golden Age & he sculpted a famous statue of Zeus
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The sculpter who made large formal works appropriated for the gods.
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Praxiteles
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The study of basic questions of reality & human existence is?
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Philosophy
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What was the aristocracy?
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Government ruled by an upper class.
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Plays containing action or dialouge & involving conflict & emotion are?
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Dramas
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What are tragedies?
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Main characters stuggled against fate or events
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He was a great thinker. He taught that education was the key to personal growth.
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Socrates
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Who was a wealthy young aristocrat & the greatest of Socrates's students? He also formed the Academy.
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Plato
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One of Plato's students; believed every field of knowledge had to be studied logically. Who was he?
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Aristotle
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Who was a philosopher who believed everything could be explained in terms of mathematics?
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Pythagoras
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Who lived between 460 - 377 BC and was the founder of medical science?
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Hippocrates
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Who was the first historian of the Western world?
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Herodotus
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Who defended many traditional Greek values and wrote a famous tradgic play "Oedipus Rex"?
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Sophocles
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Who was the 3rd greatest playwright of the Golden Age?
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Euripides
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Who was known as the finest writer of Greek comedies and who was known for their sharp wit?
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Aristophanes
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What is a phalanx?
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It contained rows of soldiers standing shoulder to shoulder
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Who were orators?
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Public Speakers
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Who was the King of Macedon of Greece who also had a son named Alexander the Great?
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Phillip II of Macedon
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Who was Demosthenes?
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A speaker who led Athenian opposition to Phillip
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Who was Alexander the Great?
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Phillip 2 of Macedon's son. His aim was to bring all the known world into a single empire
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What was the combined ideas & values drawn from the Mediterranean & Asia?
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Hellenistic culture
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Who established the Stotic philosophy in Athens in the late 300s BC?
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Zeno
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Who was the founder of Epicurean philosophy and who taught that the aim of life was to seek pleasure and avoid pain?
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Epicurus
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Who was the greatest scientist of the Hellenistic period who also found the value of (pi)?
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Archimedes
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Who correctly believed that the earth and other planets move around the sun, but failed to convince others?
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Aristarchus
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Who calculated the distance around the earth with amazing accuracy?
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Eratosthenes
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What was Hellas?
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Ancient name for Greece
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_________________ was the characteristic of the Ancient Greeks or their language, culture, and thought?
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Hellenic
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