Chapter 5 Id's
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Latin | English |
|---|---|
| Mount Olympus |  the higest mountain in Greece, where the ancient Greeks believed many of their gods and godesses lived |
| Homer | ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BC) noun |
| Aesop | Famous slave, did write fables, not all his fables were written by him, any fable that didn't have an author at that time was said to have been written by him |
| Sophocles | writer of plays; used three actors; and made Oedipus Rex, and Antigone |
| Euripides | Wrote many famous Greek tragedies. Plays such as The Trojan Women, show the misery that war brings |
| Pythagoras | Greek philosopher and mathematician who proved the Pythagorean theorem |
| sophists | Athenian men who opened schools for boys to study government, mathematics, ethics, and rhetoric |
| socrates | philosopher who believed in an absolute right or wrong; asked students pointed questions to make them use their reason, later became Socratic method |
| Plato | Student of Socrates, wrote The Republic about the perfectly governed society |
| Aristotle | one of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers |
| Herodotus | the ancient Greek known as the father of history |
| Thucydides | Ancient Greek historian remembered for his history of the Peloponnesian War (460-395 BC) |
| Macedonia | the ancient kingdom of Philip II and Alexander the Great in the southeastern Balkans that is now divided among modern Macedonia and Greece and Bulgaria |
| Phillip ii | The father of Alexander the Great; A king of Macedonia. |
| Demosthenes | one of Athen's finest orators; opposed Philip II and led series of attacks on him; was defeated |
| Battle of Chaeronea | Battle near Thebes in 338 BCE where the Macedonians defeated the Greeks from the various Greek city-states and made them join an alliance against Persia. |
| Alexander the Great | Greek military leader whos armies conquerd vast amounts of land, ruler of 1st great European Empire of the ancient world |
| Hellenistic era | period when the Greek language and Greek ideas spread to the non-Greek peoples of southwest Asia |
| Theocritus | wrote "little poems" or idylls dealing with erotic themes, lovers' complaints, and above all, pastoral themes expressing his love of nature and his appreciation of nature's beauty |
| Epicureanism | a doctrine of hedonism that was defended by several ancient Greek philosophers |
| Zeno | ancient Greek philosopher who found the Stoic school (circa 335-263 BC) |
| Stoicism | philosophy) the philosophical system of the Stoics following the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno |
| Aristarchus | an ancient Greek grammarian remembered for his commentary on the Iliad and Odyssey (circa 217-145 BC) |
| Eratosthenes | Greek mathematician and astronomer who estimated the circumference of the earth and the distances to the moon and sun (276-194 BC) |
| Euclid | Greek Mathematician (Father of Geometry) who taught in Alexandria |
| Archimedes | Greek mathematician and physicist noted for his work in hydrostatics and mechanics and geometry (287-212 BC |
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