Athenian History
Mythology
Art and Architecture
Epistemology
Ancient Greek Philosophy
100

This Athenian Philosopher was executed by hemlock poison.

Socrates.

100

This Goddess of beauty and love has two names one of Greek origin and the other of roman origin.

Aphrodite (Greek), Venus (Roman).

100

This type of pottery, characterized by black figures on a red background, is prominent in Archaic Greek art.

Black-figure pottery.

100

"Episteme" means this.

Knowledge.

100

This ancient Greek philosopher's name meant "broad".

Plato.

200

This athlete and want to be tyrant won the Olympic games in 640 BCE and was killed after attempting a political coup in Athens.

Kylon.

200

In an ancient Greek Homeric Hymn, it is written that Hades abducted what goddess from her home.

Persephone.

200

This term refers to the decorative horizontal band on the frieze of the Parthenon, of which the "Weaver's section" is shown here, depicting a procession honouring Athena.

The Panathenaic Procession.

200

This "first principle" of René Descartes's philosophy was originally published in french. It later appeared in Latin in his Principia Philosophia.

Je pense, donc je suis;

I think, therefore I am;

or Cogito Ergo Sum.

200

What are the four kinds of causation according to Aristotle?

Material, Formal, Efficient, Final.

300

This Athenian playwright was allegedly killed by an eagle mistaking his bald head as a rock and dropping a tortoise on him.

Aeschylus.

300

This goddess is known as the messenger goddess sending messages to those in need by way of rainbow.

Iris.

300

Commentators have suggested that nearly every great ancient Greek philosopher can be found in Raphael's The School of Athens, but determining which are depicted is speculative. This notable cynic is pictured with only scant clothing and his bowl.

Diogenes.

300

This theory of knowledge asserts that the only legitimate source of knowledge about the world is experience.

Empiricism.

300

What are the five elements in Ancient Greek cosmology?


Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Aether.

400

This battle happened during the Greco-Persia Wars and was a major victory for Athens in 480 BCE.

The Battle of Salamis.

400

This Ancient Hero asked Poseidon to change their gender so they would never be penetrated against their will again.

Caeneus.

400

This post-Socratic philosopher, pictured below, taught Alexander the Great.

Aristotle.

400

Immanuel Kant famously split the world of objects into these two categories.


Phenomena and Noumena.

400

In one account of the death of Pythagoras, while feeling a mob the Greek mathematician encountered a field of this crop, which he may have believed held the souls of the dead. He refused to trample the field, and met his fate.

Fava Beans.

500

This Athenian ruler became an unforgiving leader after the scandalous murder of his brother in 514.

Hippias.

500

This was left behind in Pandora’s box after she opened it to release seven evils into the world.

Hope.

500

The Athena Parthenos was sculpted by Phidias and utilized this artistic technique to make her skin appear to glow.

'Chryselephantine' (combination of gold and ivory).

500

These theories of knowledge posit epistemically advantaged socially situated positions which may more easily, with greater accuracy, or with greater ability to represent fundamental truths, access certain facts of the matter.


Standpoint theories.

500

In the essay The Reason of the Strongest, Jaques Derrida argues the democracy in Plato’s Republic links the concept of “Freedom" (Elutheria) to this, "_______" (Excousia), potentially contradictory, component.

License.

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