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Myths Fable Epicureanism Comedy Aesop Homer Sophocles Drama Epics tragedy. A story told by actors who pretend to be characters in the story Traditional stories about gods & heroes. - Used three actors and painted scenes. - Wrote many fables. . - Long poems about heroic deeds.
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Myths Fable Epicureanism Comedy Aesop Homer Sophocles Drama Epics tragedy • A story told by actors who pretend to be characters in the story • Traditional stories about gods & heroes - Used three actors and painted scenes. - Wrote many fables. - Long poems about heroic deeds. - Teaches that happiness is the goal of life. - A person struggles to overcome difficulties but fails. - Wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey. - A short tale that teaches a lesson. - Ends happily.
Herodotus Pythagoras Socrates Plato Philosophy Sophists Pythagorean Theorem Aristotle Philosophers Thucydides - Taught that absolute right and wrong did exist - Greek word for “love of wisdom” - Professional teachers in ancient Greece. - One of Socrates’ students - Considered by many historians as the greatest historian of the ancient world. - Greek thinkers who believed the human mind could understand everything - A way to determine the length of the sides of a triangle. - Plato’s best student. - Considered the “father of history.” - Taught that the universe followed the same rules as music and numbers.
- King of Macedonia / admired everything about the Greeks. Legacy Phillip II Alexandria Chaeronea Demosthenes Hellenistic - Era that refers to a time when the Greek language and Greek ideas spread to the non-Greek people of southwest Asia. - The largest city in the Med world by 100 BC. - What a person leaves behind when he or she dies. - Phillip II crushed the Greek allies at the Battle of ____. - Warned Athenians that Philip was a threat to Greek freedom.
Archimedes Euclid Zeno Astronomers Theocritus Archimedes Stoics Eratosthenes Aristarchus • The most famous scientist of the Hellenistic Era that worked on solid geometry. • The most famous Greek mathematician, best-known for his book Elements describing plane geometry. • Wrote short poems about the beauty of nature. • Claimed that the sun was the center of the universe and that Earth circled the sun. • Figured out the value of pi and designed catapults. • Happiness came from following reason, not emotions, and doing your duty. • Concluded that Earth is round and measured Earth’s circumference. • Study stars, planted, and other heavenly bodies • A Phoenician, developed Stoicism.
