Greek Gods
Supreme ruler of the Greek gods, uses thunderbolts, has a weakness for the ladies.
Who is Zeus?
Group of traveling teachers who would mainly teach rhetoric. They didn’t believe the gods influenced human actions. They also rejected the idea of absolute right or wrong.
Who were the Sophists?
Considered to be the father of modern history, he wrote A History of the Persian Wars. While he wrote that the Gods still played a role in historical events, he still made an effort to separate fact from fiction. He investigated and interviewed many different people to get to the truthfulness of the events.
Who is Herodotus?
Alexander's father, a Macedonian, who lived in Greece as a young man and grew to admire Greek culture and their military skill. He becomes king of Macedonia in 359 B.C., creates a strong army, trained his soldiers to fight like the Greeks, then planned to unite to Greek city states under his rule, and destroy the Persian Empire as well.
Who is Philip II?
Greek Scientist who claimed the sun was the center of the universe, not the earth.
Who is Aristarchus?
Many Greeks visited an oracle to find out about the future.
What is an Oracle?
Philosophy that people should use reason over emotion created by Zeno. He preached this philosophy, one in which happiness came from "doing one’s duty, and following reason, not one’s emotions".
What is Stoicism?
A physician who is regarded as the father of medicine. He believed that diseases came from natural causes and not evil spirits, as many believed at the time. He developed his own treatments to cure sick people. He even came up with a set of rules/oath on how doctors should treat patients. It states doctors should do all they can to help a patient and keep their privacy.
Who is Hippocrates?
A commander in the army at 16 and a ruler at 20
Who is Alexander the Great?
He wrote epics, including The Iliad. Historians believe many people wrote fables under this name.
Who was Aesop?
Greek goddess of love and beauty
Who is Aphrodite?
A sculptor by training, but he loved philosophy. Created the Socratic Method of teaching and he believed in absolute truth.
Who is Socrates?
A general in the Peloponnesian War and later a historian, he wrote The History of the Peloponnesian War. He rejected the idea that the gods had any affect on human history. He visited battle sites and carefully examined documents. In addition, he only accepted only actual eyewitness reports of events. He also explored the causes and effects of events so that past history might be a warning to future generations.
Who is Thucydides?
a time when Greek culture spread through the known world
What is the Hellenistic era?
Philosophy that happiness was the goal of life. The philosophy or belief that happiness is "the freedom fear and pain.
What is Epicureanism?
Goddess of wisdom, won a contest over Poseidon for naming right to Athens.
Who is Athena?
One of Socrates’ students, he founded ‘The Academy’ and wrote ‘The Republic’ which presented his plan for an ideal society. Which was 3 groups and also though women should get equal rights as men.
Who is Plato?
He worked on solid geometry and studied ball like shapes called spheres, and tube like shapes called cylinders. He also figured out the value of pi, which measures the area of circles. He was also an inventor who invented weapons of war. On the King of Syracuse’s request he designed the world’s first catapult.
Who is Archimedes?
The city Alexander the Great built in Egypt?
What is Alexandria?
Greek scientist concluded that Earth was round?
Who is Eratosthenes?
The gods in Greek myths have great powers but look and act like human beings.
What is true?
He categorized governments into 3 types: monarchy, oligarchy and democracy. He believed the best government had features of all three types.
Who is Aristotle?
taught students that the universe followed the same laws that governed music and numbers?
Who is Pythagoras?
What happened to Macedonia after Alexander's death?
The general fought each other and the empire split into 4 kingdoms: Macedonia, Pergamum, Egypt and Selucid Empre.
He believed in using observation to learn about the world.
Who was Homer?