Vocab
People
Places
Beliefs and Quotes
Greek Culture
100
What is a myth?
A traditional story about gods and heroes
100
Which Macedonian king loved Greek culture and planned to conquer Persia?
Philip II
100
What was the highest mountain in Greece?
Mount Olympus
100
Who thought that governments should be headed by philosopher-kings?
Plato
100
Who wrote the History of the Persian Wars?
Herodotus
200
What was the Hellenistic Era?
A time when Greek culture spread throughout the non-Greek world
200
Who was a commander in the army at 16 and a king at 20?
Alexander
200
Where was Macedonia in relation to Greece?
To the north
200
How did Greeks hope to earn the favor of their gods?
By performing rituals
200
What was the difference between a Greek comedy and tragedy?
Tragedies had unhappy endings, comedies had happy endings
300
What group taught that there was no absolute right and wrong?
Sophists
300
Who taught that the universe followed the same rules as music and numbers?
Pythagoras
300
What important structure was located in Delphi?
The oracle at the Temple of Apollo
300
Who said, "Give me a lever and a place to stand, and I will move the earth"?
Archimedes
300
What is an epic? Give an example
Long poems telling of heroic deeds. The Iliad by Homer was about the Trojan War
400
What group taught that happiness came from reason and doing one's duty?
Stoics
400
Who is considered by some to be the greatest historian of the ancient world?
Thucydides
400
What event happened in Syracuse?
The Romans attacked in 212 BC and Archimedes designed catapults to defend the city
400
Who told King Ptolemy that "there is no royal way to learn geometry"?
Euclid
400
Define Epicureanism
Philosophy that the way to be happy was to seek out pleasure
500
What is the Socratic method?
The way of teaching developed by Socrates that used a question and answer format to force students to use their reason to see things for themselves
500
Who was Sophocles?
A dramatist who used painted scenery and three actors to tell a story
500
What areas did Alexander the Great conquer? (6 total, list at least 4)
Greece, Asia Minor, northern Egypt, Syria, the Persian Empire, and into India
500
What were the three types of governments as defined by Aristotle?
Government by one person, such as a monarch or tyrant; Government by a few people, such as an aristocracy or oligarchy; and government by many people, as in a democracy
500
What are some areas of our lives that ancient Greek culture still has influence over today? (at least 3 with examples)
Architecture (Greek columns), mathematics (Pythagorean theorum, geometry), entertainment (drama), government (democracy), philosophy (Socratic method, "golden mean", absolute truth), and literature (poetry, theater)
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