Greece Flashcards
Greek people, places, events, and vocab
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| 102264841 | Homer | a blind Greek poet who might have written the epics, the Illiad and the Odyssey | |
| 102264842 | Sophists | teachers who taught rhetoric (public speaking) at the end of the Peloponnesian Wars | |
| 102264843 | Socrates | a philosopher/teacher who taught on the streets to anyone and created the Socratic Method | |
| 102264844 | Plato | a famous student of Socrates who set up the Academy and wrote The Republic | |
| 102264845 | Artistotle | a famous student of the Academy who developed the Lyceum | |
| 102264846 | Herodotus | called the "Founder of History", he gathered and analyzed historical evidence | |
| 102264847 | Thucydides | he improved Herodotus' theory and remained impartial and unbaised | |
| 102264848 | Homeric Age | a time period in which Homer wrote the Illiad and the Odyssey | |
| 102264849 | Solon | a leader who canceled debts, outlawed enslavements for debt, freed everyone who had been enslaved for debt, divided the sitizens into four groups, and set up a court in which a citizen could appeal an unfavorable decision | |
| 102264850 | Peisistratus | a tyrant who improved the economy and exhiled those who disagreed with him | |
| 102264851 | Cleisthenes | he overthrew the aristocrats and turned into a democracy | |
| 102264852 | Athens | a Greek city-state in whichthe government went from an anarchy to a democracy and farming, manufacturing, and trading were a big part of society | |
| 102264853 | Sparta | a Greek city-state which mostly focused on military power and was a rival to Athens | |
| 102264854 | Socratic Method | a conversational, question and answer technique | |
| 102269377 | The Academy | a school, set up by Plato, that taught philosophy, math, and science | |
| 102269378 | The Lyceum | the first scientific institute; built in Athens |