Thursday, September 4, 2014

Ancient Greece


-  Agora - Was a main spot when everyone went to gather. It is also know as an assembly. The agora was a central place for spiritual and political life in the city. The chief marketplace of Athens.

- Arete - excellence of any type to kind 

-  Polis - Ancient Greece city state. It was also know as the nucleus , the central urban area. 

-  The year 508 BC - Cleisthenes grants full rights to all free men of Athens 

-  Socrates - Was a philosopher who was the teacher to Plato. Socrates said "an oracle of the gods had pronounced him the wisest of all people, because he knew how little he knew" 

- The death of socrates - He was accused by the government that he was denying the gods and causing trouble for his students ( the young ) in his teachings. accepted death from Hemlock.

-  The Socratic method - over 2400 years old , founded on Socrates' belief that lecture was not an effective method of all students. Discussions between people. 


- What the ancient Greeks meant if they called you an idiot - a person who works in a counterproductive way towards things. 





Websites

- http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/greeks.html
- http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/436105
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agora
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arete
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polis
- http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/4994
- http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/551948/Socrates

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