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name for early philosophers who believed that there are no absolute truths
Who were the Sophists, relativists?
name for ultimate foundational truths
What are absolutes?
the dates for the Greco-Persian War
What are 490-479 B.C.?
the three ruling dynasties that came out of Alexander's empire, and the area the each dynasty ruled
What are the Ptolemies in Egypt,
the Seleucids in Syria, Mesopotamia, and Persia
the Antigonids in Macedonia and Greece?
famous Greeks who made contributions to astronomy, math, and geography during the Hellenistic Age
Who were Aristarchus of Samos (theory that the earth revolves around the sun),
Euclid (systematized the theorems of plane geometry),
Hipparchus (basic principles of trigonometry), and
Archimedes (contributions to math, engineering, and physics)?
famous comic dramatist of ancient Greece
Who is Aristophanes?
Plato's most famous work
What is The Republic?
the first major naval battle in history
What is the Battle of Salamis?
the dates for the Hellenic Age
What are 700s B.C. to 338 B.C.?
Homer's contribution to the Greek religion
Greek tragedian who wrote Oedipus Rex and Antigone
Who is Sophacles?
common language of cultured people throughout the Mediterranean world from 300 B.C. until the A.D. 400s
What is kione Greek?
the dates for the Peloponnesian War
What are 431-404 B.C.?
famous Greeks who made contributions to science, math, and medicine during the Hellenic Age
Who are Pythagoras (concepts of geometry),
Democritus (theory that all matter is composed of individual atoms), and
Hippocrates ("Father of Medicine" who concluded that disease results form rationally explainable causes)
How the Greek gods differed from the mythological gods of other civilizations
Unlike other gods, the Olympian gods were the product of a poetic genuis' imagination. They had individual human personalities unmatched in the myths of other cultures
freed slave credited with introducing the fable to literature
Who is Aesop?
the first important European civilization after the Flood
What is Minoan?
The two prominent regions of Ancient Greece
What are Attica and the Peloponnesus?
the dates for the Hellenistic Age
What are 323-30 B.C.?
How was the defeat of Xerxes at Salamis a turning point in history?
It placed an absolute limit on the westward expansion of the Persian Empire and ensured that Greek culture would continue to thrive in the west
Greek "Father of History" who described the Persian invasions, often embellishing the fact with fiction and attributing the outcome of events to the whims of the gods
Who is Herodotus?
the date for the first Olympic games
What is 776 B.C.?
the date Alexander the Great began his conquest of the Persian empire
What is 334 B.C.?
the philosophical teachings of Stoicism and Epicureanism and the founders of each philosophy
Epicureans emphasized indulgence of one's bodily appetites and the physical pleasures of life. Epicurus was the founder.
name for the straits (Dardanelles) between the Black and Aegean seas
What is Hellespont?