boring homework

Today we did nothing in class probably the only fun class were going to have all year. Now we have to do some ancient Greek thing I don’t know personally I think we should do it on the Olympics.

Arête- A sharp mountain ridge

Polis- A city in ancient Greece

Socrates- ancient Athenian philosopher. As represented in the writings of his disciple Plato, he engaged in dialogue with others in an attempt to reach understanding and ethical concepts by exposing and dispelling error (the Socratic Method). Charged with introducing strange gods and corrupting the young, he committed suicide as required

 The death of Socrates- cannot find on internet

The Socratic method- Socrates engaged in questioning of his students in an unending search for truth. He sought to get to the foundations of his students' and colleagues' views by asking continual questions until a contradiction was exposed, thus proving the fallacy of the initial assumption. This became known as the Socratic Method, and may be Socrates' most enduring contribution to philosophy.

the date 508 BC- The Roman-Etruscan Wars were a series of wars fought between ancient Rome (including both the Roman Kingdom and the Roman Republic) and the Etruscans, from the earliest stages of the history of Rome. Information about many of the wars is limited, particularly those in the early parts of Rome’s history and in large part are known from ancient texts alone.

Agora- (in ancient Greece) a public open space used for assemblies and markets. A monetary unit of Israel, equal to one hundredth of a shekel

What the ancient Greeks meant if they called you an idiot- it means that there calling you a very  private person.

-Darian Weldon