Developed Socratic Method - teaching technique dev. using questions and answers. Search for truth the most important thing. "Know Thyself".
What is Socrates?
100
Comedies about everyday life
What is Menander?
100
Invented pulley, cylinder screw, principle of buoyancy, and lever
What is Archimedes?
100
Mathematician - tried to explain everything in mathematical terms. Pythagorean Theorem. The World was round and revolved around a fixed point.
What is Pythagorus?
100
A temple to Athena on the Acropolis. - Example of classic Greek architecture represents Greek ideal of nothing to excess
What is the Parthenon?
200
A student of Socrates - began the Academy, taught the Socratic Method. Wrote the Republic, book on political science that presented a plan for the ideal society & Gov. Wanted most intelligent and educated citizens in Gov.
What is Plato?
200
Wrote comedies - imaginative social satires - The Clouds
What is Aristophanes?
200
Theory that water was basic substance of which everything in the world is made
What is Thales?
200
Mathematician - father of geometry. Book organized all info on geometry
What is Euclid?
200
Philosopher - began Epicureanism. People should avoid both joy and pain by accepting the world as it was, ignoring politics, living simply & quietly with a few close friends
What is Epicurus?
300
A student of Plato - taught Alexander the Great. Opened school called the "Lyceum". Wrote 200 books on science, poetry, political science & weather. Believed Earth center of solar system. Politics books on Gov. in the city-states in Greece
What is Aristotle?
300
Wrote tragedies - accepted human suffering as part of life. Stressed human courage & compassion. Oedipus
What is Sophocles?
300
Estimated earth's circumference to within 1%
What is Eratosthenes?
300
Sculptor - life-sized statues that emphasized grace rather than power.
What is Praxiteles?
300
Historian - wrote a history on the Persian Wars Historia. Not very historically accurate numbers exaggerated. Father of history.
What is Herodotus?
400
Began Stoicism. What happened to people was governed by natural laws. People gain happiness by ignoring their emotions & following their reason. If do this, can accept most difficult of circumstances & do their duty.
What is Zeno?
400
Wrote tragedies - focused on qualities human beings possess bring disaster on themselves. Trojan Women
What is Euripides?
400
The sun is larger than earth, earth revolves around the sun, and stars are at immense distances from both
What is Aristarchus?
400
Sculptor - statues that idealized what people should look like rather than what they were
What is Myron?
400
Historian - wrote the history of Peloponnesian Wars. 1st scientific historian
What is Thucydides?
500
Criticized materialism and believed people would be happy if they gave up luxuries & lived simply in accord with nature. Began cynicism
What is Diogenes?
500
1st great writer of tragedies (plays)
What is Aeschylus?
500
Developed the idea of a solid particle of matter so small it was invisible and not divisible, an atom.
What is Democritus?
500
Sculptor - in charge of Parthenon's sculptures. Sculpted Athena. Perfect statue