Greek Philosophy and History

Philosophers believed that the human mind could understand everything by exploring fundamental questions about all EXCEPT:

• religion

• nature of reality

• knowledge

• the human condition

What theory did Pythagoras come up with that we still use today?

• Pythagorean identity
• Pythagorean calculus

• Pythagorean hypothesis
• Pythagorean theorem

What were traveling teachers in ancient Greece known as?

• Sophists
• Rhetoricians
• Philosophers
• Orators

How do we know the work of Socrates?

• through the writing of his pupils

• Socrates wrote extensively in his own books

• Socrates' work is documented in ancient scrolls

• through mythology

What was the Socratic Method?

• asking pointed questions to force his pupils to answer through reason

• addition formula

• forcing people to answer impossible questions

• asking simple questions to get simple answers

Who wrote about Socrates teachings and his own works?

• Aristotle
• Plato
• Epicurus
• Socrates

Plato wrote which book criticizing democracy in Athens?

• The Symposium
• The Politics
• The Laws
• The Republic

Who was Plato's student that wrote over 200 books and taught his pupils the "golden mean?"

• Plato
• Aristotle
• Epicurus
• Socrates

Which book, written by Aristotle, identified the main governmental structures?

• Poetics
• Politics
• Nicomachean Ethics
• Metaphysics

Who was considered the "father of history" writing about the Peloponnesian War?

• Herodotus
• Plato
• Thucydides
• Aristotle