A | B |
trilogy | a series of three plays |
Sophocles, Athenian Playwright | Oedipus Rex |
Euripedes, realistic characters | Compassion for women and children, was is brutal |
Herodotus, master storyteller, first historian | History of the Persia Wars |
Thucydides | greatest historian of the ancient world |
Antigone, the play | "Is there anything more wonderful... than the miracle of man?" |
Thuscydides | examined the Peloponnesian War |
Aeschylus, playwright | The Oresteia, Agememnon is one play |
Philosophy | the way you thik and believe |
Greek philosophy | love of wisdom, reasoning about the universe |
Pythagoras | numbers, music, geometry |
Sophists | think effectively, no absolute right or wrong |
Socrates | code of ethics |
Sophists | improve yourself, don't worry about the others |
Socratic method | think for yourself using reason |
Plato | student of Socrates, reality is in your thought process, ideal state |
The Republic | justice is acheived by individual |
Aristotle | most influential thinker in the Western |
virtue | positive value or positive characteristic |
intelligence | activity of the mind |