Saturday, August 31, 2013

Ancient Greek Vocabulary


Agora- A gathering place or an assembly

Arete- excellence and virtue

Polis- city, citizenship, and body of citizens

The year of 508 BC- in this year they became the first society to become a democracy

Socrates- Greek philosopher; started the idea of Modern Western philosophy

The death of the Socrates- Socrates was accused of deny the gods and disrupting the youth through his teaches. He was poisoned.

The Socratic Method- a form of debate between two or more people with different viewpoints; based on asking and answering questions to think of more ideas

What does it mean if the Greeks called you an idiot- It means that you were a man who didn’t want to take part in public discourse and in the public practice.

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