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Chapter 4.5.6
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Undergraduate 2
03/01/2011

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Term
Classical
Definition

1. Promoting Greek and roman culture

2.The best of it's time and has lasted overtime

Term
Minoan Civilization 
Definition

Prosperous and Seafaring 

Complex housing 

Bull Fighting 

 

Term
Mycenaean Civilzation 
Definition

Militant and War-Like

Aggrestive People 

Close boarders

Term
Homeric Epic
Definition

Illad- Trojan War-Achilles

Odyssey-Odysous-Kyklose

Term
Polis
Definition

City-State

Example Athens and Sparta

Term

Difference btw Athens / Sparta

 Gov't

Definition

Democracy- Athens

Oligarchy- Sparta

Term
Role of women Athens / Sparta
Definition

oppressed, no rights, housewives- Athens

 

Capable of having jobs, holding office, being involed- Sparta

Term
Major emphasis Athen vs Sparta
Definition

Artistic culture- Athens 

 

War militant- Sparta

Term
Cosmopolitan view Athens & Sparta
Definition

Open the new people, more accepting - Athens

 

Did not like outsiders of foreighers, closed borders- Sparta

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Classical Order
Definition

Doric 

Ionic

Corinthian 

Term
Sappho
Definition
lyric poetry, about emotion and feelings, 1st female greek poet
Term
Herodotus & Thucydides 
Definition
Greek Historians
Term
Pericles 
Definition
Golden Age ruler os Athens
Term
Socrates 
Definition

Dialectical Method 

question answer style 

Term
Plato 
Definition

Idealism 

spirtrual more than phyiscal 

Term
Aristophanes 
Definition

Empirical methond

Ethic and deductive reasoning

Term
Aeschylus 
Definition

Greek Playwritter

"father of tragedy"

Term
Sophocles 
Definition
Oedipus
Term
Euripdes
Definition
Medea in Trojan Women
Term
Aristophones
Definition

Comic/Political/satire

lysistrata 

Term
Muses
Definition
nine godesses ove rthe arts and secienses
Term

Alexander the Great

contribution

Definition

Promoted racial diversity

Multi-Ehtnic kingdom

Term
NIKE
Definition
God of victory
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