Famous Greeks
Herodotus and Thucydides were important Greek
Historians
Who is known as the Father of History?
Herodotus
Name this type of column
Corinthian
Hellenic culture refers to what?
Greek culture
After the Persian Wars, Greece was in control of what sea?
Aegean Sea
Aeschylus and Sophocles were involved in Greek __________.
Plays; They were playwrights
Who is known as the Father of Medicine based on his medical knowledge and code of ethics for doctors?
Hippocrates
What is pictured?
Hellenistic culture refers to what?
Which large empire was conquered by Alexander that allowed his empire to spread to the Indus River?
The Persian Empire
Which Greek is credited with creating the epic stories about the Trojan War in the Iliad and The Odyssey?
(blind poet)
Homer
Rebuilt Acropolis and the Parthenon
Greatly expanded democracy
Promoted trade and unity in a golden age
Advanced art, literature, and culture
LEADER OF ATHENS DURING GOLDEN AGE
Name the type of column
Doric
TRUE OR FALSE:
China became a Hellenistic country
False; Alexander only reached the Indus River before his troops quit to go home
This city-state enjoyed a Golden Age after Greek victory in the Persian Wars
Athens
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were Greek
Philosophers
He was killed by a Roman soldier because he was too busy solving a math problem. He invented levers & pulleys; "Father of Physics"
Archimedes
Ionic
The Hellenistic empire of Alexander stretched as far east as this river in ancient India
Describes the culture that glorified humans and focused on combining beauty and usefulness?
"The Ideal Form"
Hellenic Culture (Just culture specifically from Greece)
Euclid and Pythagoras were important to what subject?
Math
He made the statue of Athena in the Parthenon
Phideas
Tell me one reason the Parthenon was built
To honor the goddess Athena;
To represent Athenian greatness and recognize it as a dominant world power;
Symbol of power and wealth (for Athens)
Alexander the Great adopted Greek culture and blended many aspects of other cultures that he conquered.
What is the term for these blended cultures from Greece, Persia, and India?
Hellenistic Culture
Competition between Athens and Sparta;
Athens forms Delian League;
Sparta forms Peloponnesian League;
Greece became open to attack;
What war is described above?
Peloponnesian Wars