The Greek Mind

The word philosophy means

• love of history.”

• “love of science.”

• “love of wisdom.”

• “love of mathematics.”

Socrates was an Athenian sculptor whose true love was

• writing.

• drama.

• philosophy.

• giving lectures.

After he compared 158 governments to find the best one, who wrote the book Politics?

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Thucydides

• Herodotus

Who is considered to be the “father of history”?

• Herodotus

• Thucydides

• Aristotle

• Plato

who is a student of Socrates who wrote the Republic

• Herodotus

• Thucydides

• Aristotle

• Plato

Aristotle taught his students the

• “golden mean.”

• "golden rule.”

• golden way."

• Golden Fleece.

Who was sentenced to death for his teachings?

• Socrates

• Thucydides

• Aristotle

• Plato

Homer’s epic, the Iliad, is about

• Alexander the Great.

• Gilgamesh.

• the oracle at Delphi.

• the Trojan War.

The gods in Greek myths have great powers but look and act like human beings.

• True

• False

Many Greeks visited an oracle to find out about the future

• True

• False