Monday, September 2, 2013

Greek Vocabulary

  • agora- a popular political assembly 
  • arete- the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character
  • polis- an ancient Greek city/state
  • the year 508 BC- Cleisthenes grants full rights to all free men of Athens
  • Socrates- Athenian philosopher
  • the death of Socrates- he was punished for criticizing Critias, therefor he was made to drink poison hemlock
  • the Socratic method- a teacher continuing to ask their students questions, to challenge their answers.
  • what the ancient Greeks meant if they called you an idiot-  Required to Vote or Risk Being Labeled Idiots

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