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Humanities chapter 2
Greek culture and philosophy Athenian empire
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Undergraduate 1
10/03/2010

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Euripides
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Playwright who wrote tragedies in which people grappled with anguish on a heroic scale.
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Boule
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Council of 500 ancient Greece
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Aristotle's four causes for everything

 

 

 

 

 

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1. Material cause

2. effcient cause

3. formal cause

4.final cause

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Define efficent cause
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that by which something is made
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Define material cause
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that from which something is made
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Define final cause
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that for which something is made
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Define formal cause
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that into which something is made
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Socrates
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Philosopher also known was "gadfly" convicted of death in Athens for asking too many questions of the citizens
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Plato
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Student of Socrates founded "The Academy" hated democracy
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Sophocles
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Author of Oedipus the King and Antigone
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Zeus
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Tyrannical ruler who chains a fellow god to a rock
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Ismene
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She refuses to bury her brother because she wants to obey the law and because she is a woman
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katharsis
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to be purged of the emotions of pity and fear
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Aristotle
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His work, the Poetics, uses Oedipus the King to define tragedy
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Teiresias
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He was blind but he could see what others could not
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