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Chapter 5 Section 4

 

1.a. Socrates. Socrates was a philosopher who encouraged the people to examine their deepest beliefs and ideas. Socrates never wrote any books himself, he spent days in the marketplace questioning the beliefs and ideas of citizens and when he was 70 years old he was put on trial and later killed.

b. Aristotle was Plato’s most famous student. He analyzed all forms of government and developed his own ideas of the best kind of government was.

c. Parthenon is the most famous Greek temple. This building was built to dedicate the goddess Athena.

d. Aeschylus drew on the tales of the Trojan War in The Oresteia. His plays often showed how the gods could even bring down the greatest heroes.

e. Sophocles explored what happens to individuals when their moral duty conflicts with state laws.

f. Euripides survived the horrors of the Peloponnesian war. H is plays suggested that people were the cause of human misfortune.

g. Herodotus is referred to as the “Father of History”. He also wrote the Persian Wars.

h. Thucydides was younger than Herodotus and wrote about the Peloponnesian war. He lived through the war and described its brutality.

 

2.Rhetoric is the art of skillful speaking. Tragedy plays telling human suffering. Comedy were human plays that mocked people or customs.

 

3.Greeks followed the beauty of sculpting, architecture, and painting. They reflected on concern and order.

 

4. Greek plays were performed outdoors in large theaters. They explored the themes of tragedy and comedy.

 

5. Plato thought that democracy would lead to mob rule. Plato liked the rule of a single strong virtuous leader.