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Plato 400 BC Socrates’ student Wrote The Republic – allegory of the cave Archimedes c. 200 BC Archimedes Principle “Eureka!” Calculated π closely Great inventor – Archimedes’ screw Killed while doing Math Pericles 450 BC Leader of Athens at its height Ordered the Parthenon built Pythagoras c. 600 BC? Pythagorean Theorem a2+b2 = c2 Math “cult” – power of numbers Euclid 300 BC Collected all Geometry in “The Elements” used for Euclidean geometry Lived in Alexandria – center of learning Sophocles 400 BC Famous Tragedy writer Wrote Oedipus, Antigone Socrates 400 BC Most Famous Philosopher Died for his beliefs - hemlock “unexamined life is not worth living” Socratic method- questioning Euripides 400 BC Tragedian “Meaty” women’s roles - Medea Aristophanes 400 BC Greek Comedy – grandfather of Comedy The Frogs, The Birds, The Clouds Made fun of everyone Zeno (of Citium philosophy) 200 BC Stoika poikile the painted porch Stoic Philosophy Aristotle 400 BC Student of Plato Tutor of Alexander the Great Prolific writer, thinker biology, drama, physics, nature, ethics, philospohy, logic Eratosthenes 200 BC Knew Earth was round Measured Earth’s Circumference Cleisthenes Set up Democracy Leonidas Spartan 300 Zeno (of Elea) mathematician 500 BC Mathematical paradoxes Achilles and the Tortoise Homer 600 BC? Wrote Iliad and Odyssey Legendary? Was blind? Demosthenes 350 BC Great Orator – The Philippics Speech impediment Practiced with stones in mouth Solon 600 BC Eliminated slavery for indebtedness Set stage for Athenian Democracy Herodotus 500 BC Father of History Wrote about the Persian Wars Used eyewitness interviews Draco 700 BC Harsh Laws Alexander “The Great” 350 BC Conquered the Persian Empire Sappho 600 BC Woman poet – love poetry Called the “tenth muse” Hippocrates 400 BC Father of medicine Hippocratic Oath ”Do no harm” Democritus 400 BC Atomic Theory atom= “uncuttable” Thales 600 BC? First Philosopher Tried to figure natural causes of things Predicted an eclipse Epicurus 400 BC Preached epicureanism Pleasure over pain Lycurgus Sparta lawmaker Themistocles Led victory at Salamis Convinced athenians to abandon Athens
