Key Terms
Traditional stories about gods and goddesses
myths
Where did the 12 most important gods and goddesses live?
Mount Olympus
Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
Homer
What is a story that is told mainly through words and actions of actors?
What philosopher created the Socratic Method, believed in absolute truth, and was sentenced to death?
Socrates
What is a short tale that teaches a lesson?
Fable
Who is king of the Olympian gods?
Zeus
What Greek epic tells of the Trojan Horse?
Iliad
What kind of Greek drama has a main character that struggles to overcome hardships but does not succeed?
Tragedy
What does philosophy mean?
"love of wisdom"
the art of public speaking and debate
rhetoric
Who is the god of sea and earthquakes?
Poseidon
What famous 16th century European writer borrowed plots and ideas from Greek drams?
William Shakespeare
What kind of Greek drama ends happily?
Comedy
What group of philosophers were best known for rhetoric and did not believe gods influenced human action?
Sophists
a set of promises about patient care that new doctors make when they start practicing medicine
Hippocratic Oath
What was a sacred shrine where a priest or priestess would speak on behalf of a god called?
Oracle
What Greek epic tells of a young hero from the Trojan War that took 10 years to sail back home?
Odyssey
What was the time period when art, literature, philosophy, and architecture flourished?
Golden Age of Greece
Who wrote the Republic that separated the people into 3 different categories?
Plato
branch of mathematics that studies how points, lines, angles, and surfaces relate to one another
Plane geometry
When was the first Olympic Games held?
776 BC in Olympia
Who is given credit for "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" and "The Tortoise and the Hare"?
Aesop
What kind of Greek drama presented the story through singing and dancing?
Chorus
Who taught the "golden mean", and wrote Politics which influenced the US government?
Aristotle