The Persian Wars
To leave a place in an organized way, in order to get away from danger
What is evacuate?
A skilled public speaker
What is an orator?
It killed many people, including the statesman Pericles, causing the Athenians to become discouraged and question their ideas.
What is the plague?
The poison Socrates was made to drink
What is Hemlock?
A piece of writing organized as a conversation between two or more characters
What is a dialogue?
What is a trireme?
In the late 1600s, an explosion damaged this temple on the acropolis dedicated to Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom
What is the Parthenon?
After their failed invasion of Sicily, most of the Athenian warriors who did not die were sent to this place to be slaves
What is the rock quarry?
A way of teaching pioneered by Socrates, in which the teacher asks many questions, and tries to help the student think and come to an understanding, rather than just telling the student the information
What is the Socratic Method?
Relating to ideas, rather than concrete objects, actions, or people
What is Abstract?
The name of the Spartan king who sacrificed himself and his 300 soldiers at the Battle of Thermopylae in order to buy his Greek allies more time as they retreated south
Who is Leonidas?
It is that Greek drama developed over time, as dances as the annual festival to this Greek god of wine became more and more elaborate
Who is Dionysus?
Formal contact or communication between countries, including an exchange of representatives called diplomats
What is diplomatic relations?
Prior to Socrates, the Greeks primarily understood the world around them through these
What are myths?
This man's father, a doctor, taught him to carefully observe people and the real world around him, while this man's mentor, a philosopher, emphasized abstract ideals and virtues
Who is Aristotle?
The name of the city state in Asia Minor who rebelled against Persian rule and asked Athens for assistance, effectively starting the Persian wars. 150 years later, Alexander the Great would lay siege to this city and capture it on his "campaign of revenge" against Persia
What is Miletus?
The "Father of History" and my boy
Who is Herodotus?
The type of government the Spartans tried to set up in Athens
What is an oligarchy?
Earlier philosophers had focused on where everything came from, while Socrates was interested in this
What is how people should behave?
According to Aristotle, the main purpose of government was to provide its citizens with this
What is "The Good Life"?
The distance from Marathon to Athens, and the length of a modern day marathon
26.2 miles
Part of the "Big Four" Athenian playwrights, this man was younger than Aeschylus and older than Euripides, and is best known for his most famous play, Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King)
Who is Sophocles?
What is Piraeus?
He did not want to break the law. He said people must follow the law, or persuade society to change the law.
What is why did Socrates refuse to escape?
According to Aristotle, the key to being virtuous was living moderately and avoiding extremes, which he called this
What is the golden mean?