Katie Felton
Per.3
Class work Sept. 23, 2004
1.) (a.) Socrates- an Athenian stonemason and philosopher, who lived from469 BC to 399 BC (b.) Aristotle- Plato’s most famous student that had is own ideas about government (c.) Parthenon- the most famous Greek temple (d.) Aeschylus- a Athenian playwright that wrote tragedies (e.) Sophocles- wrote Antigone, an Athenian play (f.) Euripides- wrote The Trojan Women, which is a play about women during war time (g.) Herodotus- wrote The Persian Wars and collected information from people about certain events (h.) Thucydides- wrote about the Peloponnesian War
2.) (a.) rhetoric- the art of skillful speaking (b.) tragedy- a story that told of human suffering and usually ended in disaster (c.) comedy- humorous plays that mocked people or customs
3.) The standards of beauty that Greeks followed were order and natural poses.
4.) (a.) Greek plays were performed outside, there was little scenery and actors wore fancy costumes and masks. (b.) Themes that playwrights explored were religion, war, women and suffering.
5.)
(a.) Plato rejected democracy because it allowed any
citizen to vote even if they weren’t educated. (b.) Plato’s ideal government
was to have philosopher Kings and