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Flashcards by Nikki Dolten, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Nikki Dolten
almost 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| The Athenian statesman who strengthened Athens' democracy | Pericles |
| What did Pericles do to strengthen Athenian democracy? | He increased public officials. |
| The political system that involves citizens ruling themselves directly. | Direct Democracy |
| The 23,000 Square Foot Temple in Athens | Parthenon |
| The sculptor who did most of the work for the Parthenon | Phidias |
| Art portraying serenity, harmony, proportion, beauty | Classical Art |
| A serious drama containing common themes | Tragedy |
| A humorous drama usually making fun of political figures | Comedy |
| Excessive Pride | Hubris |
| Dramatist who wrote the Oresteia and more than 80 other plays | Aeschylus |
| Dramatist who wrote the Oedipus the King, Antigone and more than 100 other plays | Sophocles |
| Dramatist who wrote the Medea and other plays usually portraying strong women | Euripedes |
| Dramatist who wrote the The Birds, Lysistrata and more than 80 other plays | Aristophanes |
| The greatest historian of Greece | Thucydides |
| The other historian of Greece | Herodotus |
| Means "Love of Wisdom" | Philosophy |
| The group of philosophers that included Protagoras | Sophists |
| The famous critic of the Sophists who was executed by hemlock | Socrates |
| The philosopher who made "The Republic" and "The Allegory of the Cave" | Plato |
| The philosopher who tutored Alexander the Great | Aristotle |
| The famous king of Macedonia | Phillip II |
| King Phillip II's son | Alexander the Great |
| The orator who warned Greece of Phillip II | Demosthenes |
| Which battle involved Athens and Thebes fighting against Macedonia? | Battle of Chaeronea |
| Alexander the Great's horse | Bucephalus |
| Where was Alexander's first victory against the Persians? | Granicus River |
| Who was the Persian king Alexander defeated? | Darius III |
| Once Alexander defeated King Darius III, what did he have control of? | Anatolia |
| Where was Alexander's last victory over the Persians? | Gaugamela |
| The Greek historian who made a theory about the fire in Persia | Arrian |
| Alexander's heir who ruled Egypt | Ptolemy |
| Alexander's heir who ruled Macedonia | Antigonus I |
| Alexander's heir who ruled most of Persia | Seleucus |
| The language of most Hellenistic cultures | Koine |
| The center of commerce of Greece | Alexandria |
| The lighthouse in Alexandria | Pharos |
| Estimated the sun was 300 times larger than Earth | Aristarchus |
| Tried to estimate Earth's size | Eratosthenes |
| The highly regarded mathematicia | Euclid |
| Estimated the value of pi and made a screw | Archimedes |
| founded Stoicism | Zeno |
| school of thought that promoted social unity | Stoicism |
| founded Epicureanism | Epicurus |
| school of thought that is about the pursuit of human pleasures | Epicureanism |
| the giant bronze statue in Rhodes | Colossus of Rhodes |
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