Sunday, February 7, 2016

Democracy and Greece's Golden Age

2/6/15

1. A form of government in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives is called direct democracy 

2. Pericles was the wise statesman who led Athens during much of its golden age

3. A temple crafted by the sculptor Phidias to honor the goddess Athena was the Parthenon

4. The Greek values of harmony, order, balance, and proportion in art served as the standard for what became known as classical art 

5. A tragedy was a serious drama about common themes such as love, hate, and betrayal.

6. The greatest historian of the Greek classical age was Thucydides. 

7.Greek City-states Athens and Sparta fought each other in the Peloponnesian war. 

8. Greek thinkers who were determined to seek the truth were called philosophers

9. The sophists were a group of thinkers who questioned the existence of the traditional Greek gods.

10. One Thinker who developed a method of teaching using questions and answers was Socrates

11. Plato was a famous thinker who set forth his idea of a perfectly governed society in The Republic 

12. A philosopher who opened a school in Athens Called lyceum was Aristotle

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