Chapter 4 Vocab

Art of effective public speaking

Greek hero who fought in the Trojan War for 10 years, had a 10 year journey home to his wife

Early Greek sity-states, consisting of a city or town and its surronding countryside

5th century Athenian sculptor of the "Discuss Thrower"

Exiling a politician for 10 years by writing his name on a clay tablet

Sculpted the statue of Zues at Plympia, one of the 7 Wonders of the World

A form of drama that has the protaginist brought to ruin, especially as a result of fatal flaw

Said the sun is larger than the Earth, revolves around the sun, the stars are at immense distan

Plato's pupil, taught Alexander the Great, developed syllogism, father of zoology

Temple to Athena on the Acropolis in Athens

Socrates' pupil who was concerned with reality and ideal government, writing The Republic

Father of modern medicine 

Wrote comdies abour everyday life purely for entertainment

Developed the theorm for calculating the sides of a right triangle

A person who seized power and established one man rule

The qualities of excellene that a hero strives to win in a struggle or contest

Professinal teachers who argued people should focus on self improvment, instead of universe

Period when the Greek language and ideas were carried to the non-Greek world

Greek Culture

Father of History

Long poem that tells the deeds of a great hero, such as Illiad and the Odyssey

Father of science and atomic physics

Estimated the Earth's circimfrence within 185 miles

Father of botany

Invented the compound pulley and cylinder screw

Leader of Athens during its "Golden Age", 461-429 B.C.

Astonomer and mathematics who would predict solar eclipses, believed water was the basic substa

Sculptor of Doryohoros who believed the use of ideal proportions form math

wrote on the Peloponnesian Wars, recording accurate accounts that disregarded the gods

A fortified gathering place at the top of a hill that was sometimes the site of temples

Wrote the Elements of Geometry

Demostrated the principles of the lever and buoyancy and discovered pi

Athletic contest in honor of the gods

Poet who wrote the Illiad and the Odyssey