Ancient Greece Pt. 2 (Ch. 8)

Epicureans, Stoics, and Sophists all had this in common.

• They believed in absolute right and wrong

• They believed in democracy as the best form of government

• They were all types of philosophers

• They believed that pleasure was the main goal of life.

The Hellenistic Era produced a great body of achievements in:

• science, mathematics, art, architecture, literature, and philosophy.

• science and politics

• art and architecture.

• literature, religion, and philosophy.

Who wrote the Odyssey?

• Aesop

• Euripides

• Homer

• Sophocles

The library here attracted scholars from all over the world.

• Alexandria

• Sparta

• Troy

• Athens

The Greeks hoped to earn the favor of their gods and goddesses by performing:

• oracles

• oral traditions such as mythology

• tragedies

• rituals, sacrifices, and festivals

Who was the goddess of wisdom and crafts and was so popular that she had a major city-state named in her honor?

• Athena

• Aphrodite

• Apollo

• Artemis

This Macedonian king loved Greek culture and planned to conquer Persia.

• Homer

• Alexander the Great

• Aeschylus

• Philip II

Artemis is the goddess of:

• marriage

• the hunt and wild animals

• wisdom

• love and beauty

Who was the god of the underworld?

• Hera

• Isis

• Hades

• Zeus

Herodotus wrote:

• Antigone

• The Republic

• The History of the Persian Wars

• The Odyssey