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WorksheetsSocratic Philosophers and Hellenistic Figures
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
(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.
Who visits Socrates in prison, with the visit recorded in one of Plato's works?
Antisthenes
Timaeus
Crito
Meno
Which book of Xenophon's includes the famous cry: "Thalassa, thalassa!"?
Memorabilia
Anabasis
Apology
Symposium
Who is the founder of Stoicism?
Zeno
Antisthenes
Parmenides
Diogenes
Which of these founding philosophers did NOT have their school of thought named after them?
Plato
Pyrrhon
Socrates
Epicurus
Who is the most famous Neo-Platonist?
Diogenes
Gorgias
Numenius
Hypatia
Antisthenes was the founder of (a) (insert a school of Greek philosophy).
Which ones are a work of Aristotle?
Elements
De Caelo
Republic
Nicomachean Ethics
What was the Stoics' main philosophy?
Perfection, men should lie to people to achieve greater happiness in a perfect society
Principle, men should care less about their bodies and possessions and more about their souls
Self-discipline, men should pursue harmony and stay detached
Virtue, men should reject traditional social and political ways of life, instead follow nature
Who created the atomic theory?
Epicurus
Democritus
Euclid
Leucippus
