Test 4 Flashcards
Where was the official alphabet of Athens adopted from?
Miletos
Where was lyric poetry mostly produced?
Island of Lesbos
Who is the most famous female poet of ancient Greece?
Sappho
What are the epics?
Expansions on the Iliad and Odyssey by other authors
Who is Ekhidna?
Mother of the monsters
Who thought the primary building block of the universe was water?
Thales
What does philosophia mean?
Love of knowledge
What did Anaximander think the primary principle of matter was?
“Boundless” (apeiron)
What was the astronomy of the world according to Anaximander?
Full circles around the earth with rings filled with fire, with holes we can see when it passes over
What did Anaximenes think the primary principle was?
Air, all the elements are at different stages of density
Which philosopher has an issue with Homer and Hesiod and why?
Xenophanes of Kolophon - attributing immoral behaviour of man to the gods
Primary principle belief of Herakleitos?
No single element is the principle, there are interchange of opposites that balance each other
Beliefs of Parmenides?
Logic is only tool to know the world, observation is unreliable
- there is one single and unchanging reality that can be understood with reason
What was Zeno known for?
His paradoxes on the impossibility of motion
Beliefs of Empedokles?
- everything produced by the mixing and separation of four elements and moved by opposing forces of strife and love, which makes them separate and unite
What is atomoi?
Indivisible, for them to move there has to be space
What is Pythagoras known for?
Leading a community who had to follow strict rules around moral and dietary restrictions
Characteristic of early philosophy?
Use of logical reasoning to explain the natural world and the primary principle without supernatural causes
Which sophist spoke empathically about peithos?
Gorgias
Who wrote the textbook on art of speaking?
Teisias and Korax from Syracuse
What does peithos mean?
Persuasion
Who invented city-blocks?
Hippodamos
Sophokles’ technical manual?
Tragedy
Iktonos’ technical manual?
Building the Parthenon
