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Classical Greece
Hellenistic Culture
Alexander the Great
Greek Philosophers
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100
Most of the classical Greek playwrights wrote this type of play.
What are tragedies?
100
Most Hellenistic playwrights wrote this type of play.
What are comedies?
100
Alexander was the son of this Macedonian leader.
Who is Philip II?
100
These were professional teachers who taught that truth was different for everybody.
Who are the Sophists?
100
Alexander the Great became king in this year.
What is 336 B.C.?
200
This Greek scientist is known as the "father of medicine".
Who is Hippocrates?
200
This city, named after its founder, was the largest center of Hellenistic culture.
What is Alexandria?
200
This man served as Alexander's tutor.
Who is Aristotle?
200
This man founded Cynicism.
Who is Diogenes?
200
This classical Greek mathematician tried to explain evrything in mathematical terms.
Who is Pythagoras?
300
This famous structure represented the classical Greek ideal of "the golden mean".
What is the Parthenon?
300
This man founded Stoicism.
Who is Zeno?
300
Alexander the Great died in this year.
What is 323 B.C.?
300
Name IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER the three classical philosophers who focused on the search for truth.
Who are Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle?
300
This event was first held in Olympia in 776 B.C.
What are the Olympic Games?
400
This Greek playwright focused on the idea of human suffering as an unavoidable part of life.
Who is Sophocles?
400
This Hellenistic scientist invented the compound pulley and discovered the idea of buoyancy.
Who is Archimedes?
400
After his death, Alexander's empire was taken over by these three men.
Who are Ptolemy, Seleucus, and Antigonus?
400
This philosopher was sentenced to death but committed suicide before he could be executed.
Who is Socrates?
400
This Greek man is known as the father of history.
Who is Herodotus?
500
This man was a classical Greek sculptor who focused on the beauty of the ideal human body.
Who is Myron?
500
This scientist figured out that the sun is larger than the earth and the earth revolves around the sun.
Who is Aristarchus?
500
This was the site of Alexander's first major victory against the Persians.
What is Granicus? (western Asia Minor)
500
The Hellenistic philosophers focused on living this type of life.
What is a moderate life? (simple, avoiding extremes)
500
This man was the most famous and most accomplished Hellenistic playwright.
Who is Menander?