Professional teachers who traveled from city to city, teaching public speaking and that there was no absolute right or wrong.
What did the Sophists teach?
100
A time when the Greek language and Greek ideas spread to the non-Greek people of Asia.
What was the Hellenistic Era?
100
A philosophy that Epicurus founded which taught that the way to be happy was to seek out pleasure.
What is Epicureanism?
100
A story told by actors who pretend to be the actors in the story.
What is a drama?
200
A sacred shrine where a priest or priestess spoke for a god or goddess.
What is an oracle?
200
One of Socrates's students who taught that democracy was wrong and a good government was divided into 3 groups, philosopher kings, warriors, and the rest of the people.
Who was Plato?
200
A man who conquered the Persian empire after Phillip II died.
Who was Alexander the Great?
200
A philosophy which taught that the way to be happy was to follow reason and serve their city.
What is Stoicism?
200
What a person leaves behind when he dies.
What is a legacy?
300
Traditional stories about gods and heroes.
What were myths?
300
An Athenian sculptor who taught that an absolute truth existed and all knowledge was within each person.
Who was Socrates?
300
Pergamum, Egypt, Macedonia, and the Selucid Empire.
What kingdoms replaced Alexander's empire?
300
A scientist who worked on solid geometry and figured out the value of pi.
Who was Archimedes?
300
Greek thinkers who believed that the mind could understand everything.
What is a philosopher?
400
A short tale that teaches a lesson.
What is a fable?
400
A student of Plato who wrote more that 200 books on government to planets and stars.
Who was Aristotle?
400
A Macedonian king who united the Greek city-states into his own kingdom to defeat the Persians, but he was murdered before he was able to start.
Who was Phillip II?
400
An astronomer who figured out that the Earth is round and calculated the Earth's circumference and diameter.
Who was Eratosthenes?
400
Scientists who studied stars, planets, and other heavenly bodies.
What are astronomers?
500
A long poem which
What is an epic?
500
A Greek philosopher who taught that the universe followed the same laws of music and numbers.
Who was Pythagoras?
500
An Athenian lawyer who gave speeches warning the Athenians about Phillip.
Who was Demosthenes?
500
A Greek mathematician who wrote a book called Elements about plane geometry.
Who was Euclid?
500
A type of drama where a person struggles to overcome difficulties and fails.