Chapter 3: Classical and Hellenistic Greece, 500-100 B.C.E.

Athenian philosophers

Athenian philosophers

________ were affected by failure of Greek political forms, oligarchy, and democracy.

Philip

________ intended to lead a combined Greek force in a war of revenge and conquest against Persia.

Aristarchus of Samos

________ theorized that the sun and fixed stars were motionless and that the earth moved around the sun.

Hellenistic cities

________ were Greek in physical organization, constitution, and language.

Alexandria

________ attracted the greatest scholars and poets of the Hellenistic world.

Hellenistic medicine

________ combined theory and observation.

Alexander

________ worked to unite Greek and Persian culture and society.

Sparta

________ invaded Attica, triggering the Peloponnesian War, which would destroy both powers.

Peloponnesian War

The ________ showed the limitations of Athenian democracy and the potential brutality of the oligarchy as well.

Slaves

________ were as much the property of their owners as land, houses, cattle, and sheep.

Xerxes

________ lost his appetite for fighting Greeks after events occurring at Salamis.

Pericles

________ was a general, he never ruled Athens.

India

Alexander died after his return from ________ at the age of 32, in 323 B.C.E.

Participation

________ always occurred with a network of familial, social, and religious connections and obligations.

Sculptures

________ reflected development towards balance and realism within an ideal of human form.

Sophists

________ taught a generation of wealthy Greeks the powers and complexities of human reason.

Art of persuasion

________ was significant in the political world.

Plato

________ argued that true knowledge was impossible as long as it focused on the constantly changing, imperfect world of everyday experiences.

Sophocles

________ was the most successful tragedian in the 5th century.

ancient philosophy

Much of ________ was dominated by Platos idealist view of knowledge.

Polis

________ had never been the only form of Greek state.

Critical

________ and rational nature was a primary characteristic of Athenian culture.

Athenian empire

________ was an economic, judicial, religious, and political union held together by military might.

Triumph of democracy

________ reduced the public role of all women.

Alexanders conquests

________ transformed the political map of southern Europe, eastern Asia, and Egyptian Africa.

Athens

________ was an important, crowded capital drawing merchants, artisans, and laborers throughout the Greek world during the second half of 5th century B.C.E.

Hellenist writers

________ developed new forms of literature.

Hipparchus of Nicaea

________ placed the earth at the center of the universe and was supported by more mathematically acceptable arguments.

Delian League

The ________ was too important to Athenian prosperity to stand and fall with the Persian threat.

Hellenistic architects

________ developed more elaborate and monumental buildings and combined the buildings in harmonious urban ensembles.

Drama

________ became popular not only in Athens but throughout the Greek world since its introduction in 6th century B.C.E.

Demagogues

________ tended to be wealthy aristocrats who could afford to put in the time demanded by voluntary services.

Philip

________ intervened in war between Thebes and Phocis.

Pericles

________ was president of the commission that constructed the statue of Athena that stood in the Parthenon.

Alexanders

________ military genius, dedication to troops, reckless disregard for his own safety, and ability to move men and supplies across large distances at great speeds inspired the war machine developed by Philip.

Plato

________ used dialogue in the form of discussions for transmit his teachings.

Peloponnesian War

________ touched all aspects of Greek Life.

Plato

________ was aristocratic student of Socrates.