Vocabulary

  In class on Friday, we went over all of the vocabulary on ancient Greece.  Arête is the making of a good character.  Polis is a city state in Greece.  Socrates was a  Athenian philosopher. Socrates died by getting poisoned by hemlock.  The Socratic Method was teaching students by asking question after question.  The date 508 B.C was when the Cleisthenes grated full right to the free men of Athens.  Agora was the main spot in ancient Greece.  When the ancient Greeks called you an idiot it wasn't the same as if they called you it now.