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Socratic Philosophers and Hellenistic Figures

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

(a)   has a famous work named "The Apology" recording Socrates' speech during his legal defense at his trial for impiety and corruption in 399 BC.

2.

Who visits Socrates in prison, with the visit recorded in one of Plato's works?

a)

Antisthenes

b)

Timaeus

c)

Crito

d)

Meno

3.

Which book of Xenophon's includes the famous cry: "Thalassa, thalassa!"?

a)

Memorabilia

b)

Anabasis

c)

Apology

d)

Symposium

4.

Who is the founder of Stoicism?

a)

Zeno

b)

Antisthenes

c)

Parmenides

d)

Diogenes

5.

Which of these founding philosophers did NOT have their school of thought named after them?

a)

Plato

b)

Pyrrhon

c)

Socrates

d)

Epicurus

6.

Who is the most famous Neo-Platonist?

a)

Diogenes

b)

Gorgias

c)

Numenius

d)

Hypatia

7.

Antisthenes was the founder of (a)   (insert a school of Greek philosophy).

8.

Which ones are a work of Aristotle?

a)

Elements

b)

De Caelo

c)

Republic

d)

Nicomachean Ethics

9.

What was the Stoics' main philosophy?

a)

Perfection, men should lie to people to achieve greater happiness in a perfect society

b)

Principle, men should care less about their bodies and possessions and more about their souls

c)

Self-discipline, men should pursue harmony and stay detached

d)

Virtue, men should reject traditional social and political ways of life, instead follow nature

10.

Who created the atomic theory?

a)

Epicurus

b)

Democritus

c)

Euclid

d)

Leucippus