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Philosophy Anyone?
100
A term meaning the glorification of and celebration of human beings.
What is humanism?
100
The great age of Athens ended when Sparta won this war.
What is Peloponnesian War?
100
The great temple of Athena.
What is the Parthenon?
100
HE is called the father of Greek drama.
Who is Thespis?
100
He loves a good theorum.
Who is Pythagoras?
200
These two kings ruled over Mycenae and Troy.
Who are Agamemnon and Menalaus?
200
His father Darius failed to conquer Athens.
Who is Xerxes?
200
The Greek citizen who spearheaded the great building project at the Acropolis.
Who is Pericles?
200
He is the author of the Orestia: Agamemnon, Th eLibation Bearers and The Eumenides.
Who is Aeschylus?
200
Had one last drink (of hemlock) after asking too many questions.
Who is Socrates?
300
Headmistress and poetess.
Who is Sappho?
300
This terms encompasses a Greek city and the surrounding areas.
What is a polis?
300
This battle was the turning point of the Persian Wars.
What is the Battle of Salamis?
300
This character solved the riddle of the Theban Sphinx.
Who is Oedipus?
300
Believed the knowledge was deductive and that humans should live by the golden mean.
Who is Aristotle?
400
He had a pain in the heel in the Illiad.
Who is Achilles?
400
They were not citizens nor did they have rights in law.
Who are Athenian women?
400
This man was almost single handedly responsible for the building of the Athenian Navy.
Who is Themistocles?
400
The answer to the Spinx's riddle.
What is man?
400
Thales was the predominant member of this group of philosophic thinkers who predated Socrates?
Who are the pre-Socratic thinkers?
500
a poem often accompanied by a stringed instrument
What is lyric poetry?
500
The Athenians massacred the men of this outlying Spartan settlement.
What is Melos?
500
These three orders describe Athenian architecture- namely their columns.
What are Doric, Ionic and Corinthian?
500
He wrote of the "forms" of comedy and tragedy.
Who is Aristotle?
500
Spoke of the lost city of Atlantis in The Dialogues.
Who is Plato?
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