Stuff 1
Athenian Golden Age
Age pericles rebuilt the acropolis from the riches and tribute of the Delian League. Aspasia helped Pericles turn Greece into a cultural center. Encouraging arts through festivals,competitions, and building projects increases jobs for artisans/workers and other Greeks hated Athenians which split the country in rival camps.
Pericles
leader of athens during its golden age
Stipend
fixed salary
Jury
group of people that have authority to make decisions in legal cases
Ostracism
send away public figures seen as a threat. Person has to live away for at least 10 years.
Peloponnesian War
other Greeks hated wealth/power Athens gained from the delian league. Corinth a spartan ally attacked corcyra to protect their economical interests against athens/sparta came to defend its ally broke out as athens began to defend itself
Socrates & Socratic Method
method socrates was a greek philosopher who used the socratic method on his students (pose series of Q’s and challenge them to examine the implications of their answers. Given a death poison for pressuring youth/disrespecting gods
Plato
taught wisdom at the academy/emphasised importance of reason/created the republic, rejected athenian democracy, states regulated subjects, women should be educated
Aristotle
plato’s most famous student developed his own idea about gov. He wanted a democracy. Taught the golden mean (good conduct or modern source) set up a school (Lyceum)
Herodotus
Father of Western history, His writings reflected his own view that war was a clear moral victory of Greeks love of freedom over Persian Tyranny. Invented convos and speechless for history figures
Thucydides
Author of peloponnesian war described wars savagery
Parthenon
former temple on the Athenian Acropolis dedicated to goddess Athena
Classical style
Greek literature had to be perfect. Elegant and balanced form of traditional Greek works of art.
Greek tragedy & comedy
tragedy = love loss/grief Comedy = vanity/foolishness
Greek theater masks & chorus
Greek theater masks/chorus distinct features were on the masks which allowed actors to play male or female roles. Made of stiffened and painted linen.
Philip II
338 BC Athens fell to Macedonia, an army led by King Philip, He was assassinated at his daughter’s wedding.
Alexander the Great
rose to power after his father, Phillip II death. He went on to conquer Persia, India, and Bacrticia, was one of the most influential kings of all time.
Assimilation
local people absorbed Greek ideas. In turn Greek settlers adopted local culture.
Hellenistic Civilization After death
a new culture emerged that blended Greek, Persian, Egyptian, and Indian influences.
Stoicism
most influential school of philosophy
Pythagoras
derived formula to to calculate relationship between sides of a right triangle
Heliocentric
theory that the earth rotated and orbited the sun, not accepted until 2,000
Archimedes
applied physics to invent lever/pulley
Hippocrates
studied causes of illness and looked for clues, set ethical standards for doctors.
Strait
Path between 2 bodies of water