Greece, chapter 8

myth

• a traditional story that explains a culture's beliefs or part of the natural world

• a story with a long meaning

• a traditional story that tells events in the future

fable

• a traditional story that explains a culture's beliefs or part of the natural world

• a story that teaches a lesson

• a story that is told by the actions and spoken words of actors

who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?

• William Shakespeare

• Perclies

• Homer

Which is an example of a Greek fable?

• The gingerbread man

• Aesop's fables

• The book of the dead

How did Greeks design their buildings?

• Large columns, classical style, most were temples

• Flat roofs, ancient egyptian like, most were not temples

• Large ceilings, paved driveways, and two-story designs

Greek teachers of philosophy, reasoning, and public speaking....

• Sophist

• rhetoric

• Socratic method

A set of promises about patient care that new doctors make when they start practicing medicine

• Socratic method

• Scientific method

• Hippocratic Oath

Who wrote a book called "The Republic"

• Plato

• Playdoh

• Socrates

• Homer

Who wrote the history of the Persian Wars, and believed the gods affected historic events? He is also called "the father of history"

• Thucydides

• Plato

• Herodotus

• Homer

Who was a commander in the army at age 16 and a ruler at age 20?

• Darius

• Phillip II

• Greece II

• Alexander "the great"