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Details Title: Chapter 3 Description: The Hellenistic Period, Bitch Total Flash Cards: 31 Created: 11/13/2005 13:19:40	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term high point of classical civilization, beginning of the classical period. Definition the golden age of greece Term leader of athenian demorcracy. written about by thucydides. encouraged the bulding of gradure buildings on the acopolis. died in 429 bc due to bubonic plague. Definition pericles Term War lasted from 499-479. Definition Persian War Term 431-404 BC war between sparta and athens Definition peloponnesian war Term Wrote the history of the peloponnesian war Definition thucydides Term earliest athenian playwright (the oresteia trilogy) Definition Aeschylus Term Author of Oedipus the King and Antigone Definition Sophocles Term best-known student of socrates, author os the apology and the republic, and founder of the academy Definition plato Term "peripatetic philosopher" founder of the lyceum, and the bestknown student of plato Definition aristotle Term most famous and beautiful building on top of acropolis in athens Definition parthenon Term period of greek culture from the death of alexander the great to the roman conquest of greece Definition hellenistic Term wealthiest city of hellenistic ASIA. chief shrine immense altar to zeus Definition pergamum Term most recent-like tragedian... wrote alot about women Definition euripides Term greatest comic poet of athens. lysistrata Definition Aristophanes Term largest philisophical influence on the ideas of greece philosophy Definition socrates Term largest philisophical influence on the ideas of greece philosophy Definition socrates Term the dialogues of plato were used to record the teachings of whom? Definition socrates Term what is the thing invented by plato that was the first permanent institution of the western civilization devoted to education and research Definition the academy Term invented by aristotle as a continuum of plato's "academy" Definition the lyceum Term what is it when the audience undergoes a cleansing or purgation of the soul because of the intellectual and emotional relations with the tragic figure Definition catharsis Term believed in one reality and real world Definition aristotle Term who discovered a mathematical formula for representing the perfect male body, and ideal canon of proportion, and wrote a book aboutit Definition polykleitos Term final temple to be completed on the acropolis Definition erectheum Term column swells to compensate for the tendency of vertical parallel lines to appear to curve inward Definition etasis Term arrangement of body parts so taht weight-bearing leg is apart from free leg, shifting hip/shoulder axis. idea invented by polyklietos Definition contrapposto stance Term what's a circular building Definition tholos Term what's a circular building Definition tholos Term this man conquered land to add to greece, spreading ideas of greece Definition alexander the great Term 2 events mark the beginning of the hellenistic period Definition devision of macedonian empire, death of alexander the great Term greatest city of hellenistic age Definition alexandria Term great sculptor; worked on acropolis Definition Phidias