Philosophy
The Socratic Method
What is the method of teaching by asking questions?
DOUBLE JEAPORDY
A Greek city-state
What was a polis?
The battle in which the Athenians defeated Persia in the first Persian War
What was the battle of Marathon?
The peninsula at the southern end of Greece.
What is the Peloponnesus?
The character in the Iliad who chose to die young but be remembered forever.
Who was Achilles?
The study of basic truths of the universe
What is philosophy?
a ruler who takes power illegally
What was a tyrant?
The King of Persia during the second Persian War
Who was Xerxes?
The main crop and trading good of Ancient Greece.
What are olives?
The GOAT and bro of Bucephalus.
Who was Alexander?
The philosopher concerned with how knowledge is passed along.
Who was Plato?
a person loyal to and protected by a government
What is a citizen?
The battle in which 300 Spartans, the legends say, held back the entire Persian Army.
What was the Battle of Thermopylae?
The two poleis who fought in the Peloponnesian War.
What were Athens and Sparta?
The blind poet who authored The Odyssey and The Iliad.
Who was Homer?
"The Master of Those Who Know"
Who was Aristotle?
a government in which citizens make political decisions
What is a democracy?
The Greek (Macedonian) leader who finally conquered Persia.
Who was Alexander the Great?
The sea that surrounds Greece.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The character in The Iliad cursed to know the future, but never be believed.
Who was Cassandra?
A story about prisoners in a cave, and one who escapes and attempts to bring Truth back with him.
What is "The Allegory of the Cave?"
A leader of Athens who cautioned against total democracy
Who was Pericles?
The first historian, who wrote about the Battle of Thermopylae.
Who was Herodotus?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
The sea to the east of Greece, between Greece and Asia Minor.
What is the Aegean Sea?
A general for Athens during the Peloponnesian War, and a famous historian.
Who was Thucydides?