Ancient Greece Study Guide
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Frescoes | Paintings done on wet plaster walls. |
| Tyrants | rulers who seized power by force but who ruled with the peoples support. |
| Draco | Believed to have writen Athens first written law code. |
| Rhetoric | Study of public speaking and debating. |
| Pericles | A great general, orator, and statesman who held public office. |
| Polis | Greek word for city-state |
| Aristocracy | Greek city-states controlled by nobles |
| Metic class | People living in Athens who were not Athenian citizens, who could work and who paid taxes but were not allowed to own land or take part in governments. |
| ethics | study of what is good and bad and of moral duty |
| Stoics | believed that every person had some "spark" of the divine within. |
| Acropolis | Hill or mountain in Greece that included a fort as well as temples and other public buildings. |
| Democracy | a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them |
| Solon | settled in the disputes between creditors and debtors by erasing the debts |
| Sappho | Female lyric poet from the island of Lesbos |
| Myths | traditional stories about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to explain the natural world or the customs and beliefs of a society. |
| Oligarchy | rule by an elite few |
| Cleisthenes | Seized power in Athens and turned it into a democracy |
| Sophists | Athenian men who opened schools for boys to study government, mathematics, ethics, and rhetoric. |
| Oracles | Special places when the ancient Greeks believed gods spoke through priests and priestesses |
| Homer | ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BC) |
| Pedagogue | In ancient Greece, a male slave who taught young boys manners |
| Epicureans | The beleif that the meaning of life is to seek pleasure |
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