acient history 201 Flashcards

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Hesiod

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theogony, works and days
short poems
saying humans cant comprehend creaation of the world
8th centurny bc

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Thales

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624-546 BC
believed man can understand origins of their world
ester is fundamental element from which all things are made

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plato

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427-348 bc
the apology
the republic
sarcasm for against democracy

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aristotle

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384-322 bc
politics
nicomachean ethics
platos student

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5
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herodtus

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484-425 bc
homer
historiai-the histories
studied the past

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Thucydides

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455-399 bc
history of peloponnsian war
herodotus’s histories

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aeschylus

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525-456 BC
oresteia 
agamammon 
libation 
bearers
eumendes 
plays
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sophocles

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495-406 bc
Oepidus the King
antigone
plays

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9
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euripides

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485-406 bc

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10
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aristophanes

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455-385 bc
clouds
plays

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11
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menander

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342-292 bc
the grouch
manander
old comedy

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12
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euclid

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300 bc
hellenistic
elements
taught alexandria

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13
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zeno

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335-263 bc
developed philosophoal system known as stoicism- world is single society
believed in logos- divine reason

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epicurus

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341-270 bc 
hellenistic 
develped philosphy 
epicureanism-no pain instead happiness
individual over polis
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