Ancient Greek Figures
A commander in the army at 16 and a king at 20
Alexander the Great
He is the king of gods
Zeus
Stoicism
they believed that there was no right or wrong. they lived simple lives
The highest mountain in Greece
Mount Olympus
What did the Greeks do to please their gods?
Rituals
He got some Greek cities to join him by conquering, inviting, and bribing them.
Phillip II
The god of the underworld
Hades
He thought the government should be headed by philosopher-kings
Plato
A neighbor country north of Greece
Macedonia
He freed the Greeks from Persia's rule and then conquered Persia
Alexander the Great
Who invented the lever?
Archimedes
The goddess of love and beauty
Aphrodite
What did the ancient Greeks feel their architecture should reflect?
balance, harmony, and beauty
This is a story that talks about gods and heros
A myth
He wrote "History of the Persian Wars"
Herodotus
Who thought the universe was run by music and numbers?
Pythagoras
The goddess of hunting and wild animals
Artemis
What did Socrates diagree with Sophists on?
That arguing should be based on the truth, not opinion
This was a period of time when Greek culture spread throughout the world
The Hellenistic Era
He believed there was no royal way to learn geometry
Euclid
He was considered to be the greatest historian for his time
Thucydides
Messenger god
Hermes
What did sophists do?
They made clever and untrue arguments.
The Trojan War was written about in this famous epic by Homer
The Iliad
He used painted scenery and three actors in a play to tell a story
Sophocles