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- 3. Developments include: basic rules of geometry, the idea of a proof, discoveries in number theory, mathematical analysis, and applied mathematics.
- 4. The Peripatetic School of philosophy was founded here by Aristotle in 334 BCE and it continued to function as a university after his lifetime under a series of leaders.
- 8. Aristotle tutored this promising young man who was just 13.
- 11. Known as the “Teacher of Greece,” his writing represents the start of the Western canon of literature and had a huge influence on the history of literature.
- 12. The Father of medicine, he founded a school of medicine that revolutionized medicine in ancient Greece
- 13. Coral interludes in Greek tragedies that explain or comment on the situation developing.
- 15. These plays involved some kind of blunder that does not cause pain or disaster, but hilarity and laughter.
- 18. Instead of lecturing, Socrates used this method of asking incisive questions to force students to deepen their thinking and get to the root of an issue, as they learned how to think.
- 20. Aristotle studied here for 20 years, it persisted throughout the Hellenistic period as a skeptical school until coming to an end after the death of Philo of Larissa in 83 BCE.
- 21. An Athenian drama festival in the classical era that was held to honor the god Dionysus.
- 25. The first tragedian to codify basic rules of tragic drama, he also invented the triology.
- 28. A classical architectural order distinguished by its slender columns with spiral-shaped volutes on the capitals, a more complex base, and deeper fluting compared to other orders like the Doric.
- 29. The only known extant work of Herodotus, it tells the history of the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars.
- 31. Term coined by scholars to refer to intellectual consequences of denying the reality of the material world.
- 33. In philosophy a paradox or state of puzzlement; in rhetoric, a useful expression of doubt
- 34. Greek tragedy began with this, an element to a play in which characters introduce the plot and explain the background.
- 36. The most ornate of the 3 main classical architectural orders, defined by its slender, fluted column and its highly decorated capital, which is carved with acanthus leaves and scrolls.
- 38. The oldest, simplest, and most robust of the three main orders of classical Greek architecture, characterized by sturdy, fluted columns that rest directly on the temple’s floor without a base.
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- 1. Measured the distance between the Sun and Earth, as well as the size of the Earth.
- 2. The first to propose that the Earth rotes around its axis, leading Aristarchus of Samos to suggest a heliocentric system.
- 5. A plot device where a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly resolved by the unexpected intervention of a new event, character, ability, or object.
- 6. A geometer, physicist, and engineer, he laid the foundations of hydrostatics and statistics and explained the principle of the lever.
- 7. The first to base medical conclusions on dissection of the human body and to describe the nervous system.
- 9. He did not consider virtue to be simple knowledge, but something founded in one’s nature, habit, and reason.
- 10. Branch of philosophy that aims to glean facts from experiences and explore the “why” in all things.
- 14. Known as the “Father of History,” he is the first historian to have broken from Homeric tradition to treat historical subjects as a method of investigation arranged into a historiographic narrative.
- 16. The collection of Aristotle’s 20 treatises that have survived from antiquity through medieval manuscript transmission.
- 17. Set during the Trojan War, this tale tells of battles surrounding the quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.
- 19. Papyrus fragments with his comedies, which focused on the fears and foibles of ordinary men, teach historians about the New Comedy era of Greece.
- 22. This philosopher’s Dialogues usually featured Socrates as the leader of the conversation.
- 23. An Athenian historian and general who was known as the “Father of Scientific History,” he wrote a “History of the Peloponnesian War.”
- 24. Thucydides was the father of this school of thought that views the political behavior of individuals and the relations between states to be governed by self-interest and fear.
- 26. According to this book, cities should be ruled by philosopher kings as long as the citizenry doesn’t ask them to.
- 27. The defense of Socrates during his trial for corrupting the youth of Athens and treasonously siding with Sparta.
- 30. The last play in a Greek trilogy that was staged to revive the spirits of the public.
- 32. A rival to Aeschylus, he introduced a 3rd actor to tragedies, increased the chorus to 15 members, broke the cycle of trilogies, and introduced the concept of scenery to theater.
- 35. The initial phase of ancient Greek comedy, it is represented by the 11 surviving plays of Aristophanes.
- 37. Famed for realism in his plays, he increased the focus on feelings as a mechanism to elaborate the unfolding of tragic events.