World History Chapter 7- Greece: Home of Beauty

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Unit 2: Europe

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338 B.C.

the year the Macedonians conquered Greece

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700s-338 B.C. 

the Hellenic age

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Protagoras

the philosopher who summed up the Greeks humanistic beliefs as “man is the measure of all things”

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pedagogue

a well educated slave who tutored children

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Parthenon

the Greek temple dedicated to Athena

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Herodotus 

remembered as the Greek “Father of History”

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Aesop

the legendary who was supposed to be a freed slavefrom the sixth century

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Sophocles

author of the greatest tragedies “Oedipus Rex” and “Antigone”

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Aristophanes

comedic dramatist

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natural philosophy

original name for science

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Pythagoras

developed many geometric principles

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Democritus

developed theories about atoms

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Hippocrates

“Father of Medecine”, Wrote the Hippocratic oath still quoted today

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