| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Aeschylus | "father of tragedy", wrote the Oresteia, theory hawk dropped a turtle on his head and he died |
| orestia | written by aeschylus---drama about aggamemnons return home from the trojan war |
| Sophocles | writer-playwright ,focuses on character development |
| Oedipius the king | king id old son will kill him and marry wife, king ships him away, is destned to kill dad. Marrys the mother kills the father |
| Antigone | brother gors against king has to die, doesnt get a proper burial sis buries anyway kills herself---sophocles |
| Euripedes | wrote about faith and paths wrote Medea |
| Medea | Jason sent for golden fleece meets Medea, marries him, leaves her for another woman, she kills kids |
| Greek Comedy | created through tragedy---made fun of peloponesian war |
| Aristophanes | first greek comedian---wrote about pericles and the peloponesian war---messages should be conveyed through comedy |
| Herodotus | greek from turkey, father of history, traveled to Prsia and chronocled their hitory---BIASE |
| greek tragedy | involves gods and mythology-greedcentral theme |
| Thucyudides | wrote about the peloponisian war without biase-8 boks- wrote melian dialougue---not BIAse |
| Pythagorous | creates pythagreom therom, numbers solves all, philosopher in mathematics |
| Atomic theory | democitus--everything is made up of small atoms |
| Sophists | stdied huma life, think we live in an unnatural world, claim to know verything, had people pa hem for heir knowledge |
| Socrates | from athens he believes that everyone knows nothing and that knowledge is a series of questions |
| Trial of socrates | he traveled around Athens talking to people arrested for giving false info about gods believed that their was only one god, students came to rescue him but he refused because he claimed that he was not free ---killed himself in front of his stdents |
| Plato | student of socrtes, from rich fam, kidnaped by pirates, friends got ransom didnt use it so they made the Academy, developed the theory of knowledge, wroyte the republic |
| The republic | dialougue between socrates and plato talking about knowledge and life |
| Aristotle | one of Plats best students, alexanders teacher, taught logic astronomy, politics, and poetry, wrte Polotics, classified animals in categories |
| Politics | book aristotle wrote on democracy, oligarchy, and monarchy |
| Sacred band of thebes | they were an army made up of gay coules in order to strengthen thier desire to protect their mates |
| battle of Leuctra | thebians fought in a different ways using sacred band, helots were released the thebians allowed the helots to go back to messinae, first time sparta lost |
| Phillip the second | hostage in thebes, loved greek culture-upset about fighting-goal was to unite the greek people-united all but sparta-18 foot phalanx, army had to fight all year round, murdered at a wedding before he can take over Persia. His son Alexander takes over |
| Alexander | "the great" age 20, takes over much of the medditeranian rea, tries to finish what his his father started |
| Battle of issus | battles with darius, darius fles, alex takes fam but trets them the way they would like to be treated |
| Alexandria | best and most modern city, in egypt, made by alexander |
| Batle of Guagamela | 300,000 persians vs. 50,000 macedonians darius ran away again, alexander has techniacally won persia but he wants to win the world |
| Darius III | king of persia while alexander was in power lost his empire because he fled from battle |
| Euclid | wrote textbook of plane geometry, analytical method of profs |
| Archimedes | invented the archimedes screw--water irrigation system |
| Aristarchus | astronomer and mathematician,invented heliocentric system-planets revolve around the sun |
| Epicurous | believed that pleasure is the key to life |
| Atomism | beilief in atoms exsistence? |
| Stoicism | the belief that fire creates the universe and holds it together--ACCEPT FATE! |
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