professional theachers who traveled from city to city to teach, they didnt believe that gods influenced people, they also didnt beleive in absolute right or wrong.
What is sophists
100
wrote the illiad and the oddysey
What is homer
100
wrote the history of the persian war, known as the father of history, wrote more about fact than fiction.
What is herodotus
100
established the science of physics and explained the lever and compound pulley, figured out pi.
What is archimedes
100
wrote plays, used 3 actors, used backdrops, and was a war general.
What is sophocles
200
believed that an absolute truth exsisted, made the socratic method which is a form of teaching that uses questions to lead students to discover things for themselves.
What is socrates
200
made famous fables.
What is aesop
200
fought in peleponisian war, wrote about the peleponisian war, known as the greatest historian of the ancient world, wrote more about fact than fiction.
What is thucydides
200
wrote a book that organized about geometry.
What is euclid
200
was a playwrite, characters were more down to earth, and wrote tradgedys.
What is euripedes
300
rejected the idea of democracy as a form of government, believed that philosophers and kings should rule society.
What is plato
300
wrote short poems about beauty and nature.
What is theocritus
300
king of macedonia, united the greek city-states to fight against persia.
What is phillip 2
300
figured out the earth is round.
What is ertosthenes
300
made fun of leading politicians and scholars and had jokes.
What is aristophanes
400
taught the idea of the golden mean, believed observation and comparision were necessary to gain knowledge, wrote over 200 math and science books.
What is aristotle
400
(impact on todays world) taught us lessons on courage, honor, love, trust, and loatly.
What is homer
400
conqured the persian empire, expanded territory, and spread greek culture throughout southwest asia.
What is alexander the great
400
established that the earth revolves around he sun.
What is aristarchus
400
wrote plays, wrote the oresteia, had 2 actors, used costumes, props, stage decorations.
What is aeschylus
500
founder of epicureanism, taught that happiness was the goal of life.
What is epicureans
500
(in the catagory of philosophy) tought you should follow reason not emotion and do your duty.
What is stoics
500
who fouht and wrote about th peleponisian war??
What is thucydides
500
greek philosopher, believed all realationships in the world could be expressed in numbers, developed the pythagorean thorem wich is way to to determine the length of the sides of a triangle.
What is pythagoras
500
(impact on todays world) all around the world theaters use lots of actors and he started using larger numbers.