PlatoPlato 400 BC 400 BC

Socrates’ student

Wrote The Republic – allegory of the cave

Archimedes Archimedes c. 200 BCc. 200 BC

Archimedes Principle “Eureka!”Calculated π closely

Great inventor – Archimedes’ screw

Killed while doing Math

PericlesPericles 450 BC450 BC

Leader of Athens at its height

Ordered the Parthenon built

Pythagoras Pythagoras c. 600 BC?c. 600 BC?

Pythagorean Theorem a2+b2 = c2

Math “cult” – power of numbers

EuclidEuclid300 BC300 BC

Collected all Geometry in “The Elements” used for Euclidean

geometry

Lived in Alexandria – center of learning

SophoclesSophocles 400 BC400 BC

Famous Tragedy writer

Wrote Oedipus, Antigone

SocratesSocrates400 BC400 BC

Most Famous Philosopher

Died for his beliefs - hemlock

“unexamined life is not worth living”

Socratic method- questioning

Euripides Euripides 400 400 BCBC

Tragedian

“Meaty” women’s roles - Medea

Aristophanes Aristophanes 400 BC400 BC

Greek Comedy – grandfather of Comedy

The Frogs, The Birds, The Clouds

Made fun of everyone

Zeno Zeno (of Citium(of Citium

philosophy)philosophy)

200 BC200 BC

Stoic Philosophy

Stoika poikilethe painted porch

AristotleAristotle 400 BC400 BC

Student of Plato

Tutor of Alexander the Great

Prolific writer, thinker biology, drama, physics, nature, ethics,

philospohy, logic

Eratosthenes Eratosthenes 200 BC200 BC

Measured Earth’s Circumference

Knew Earth was round

CleisthenesCleisthenes

Set up Democracy

LeonidasLeonidas

Spartan 300

Zeno (of Elea)Zeno (of Elea)mathematicianmathematician 500 BC500 BC

Mathematical paradoxes

Achilles and the Tortoise

HomerHomer 600 BC? 600 BC?

Wrote Iliad and Odyssey

Was blind?

Legendary?

Demosthenes Demosthenes 350 BC350 BC

Great Orator – The Philippics

Speech impediment Practiced with stones in mouth

SolonSolon600 BC600 BC

Eliminated slavery for indebtedness

Set stage for Athenian Democracy

Herodotus Herodotus 500 BC500 BC

Father of History

Wrote about the Persian Wars

Used eyewitness interviews

DracoDraco 700 BC700 BC

Harsh Laws

AlexanderAlexander“The Great”“The Great”

350350 BCBC

Conquered the Persian Empire

SapphoSappho 600 BC 600 BC

Woman poet – love poetry

Called the “tenth muse”

Hippocrates Hippocrates 400 BC400 BC

Father of medicine

Hippocratic Oath ”Do no harm”

Democritus Democritus 400 BC400 BC

Atomic Theoryatom= “uncuttable”

ThalesThales 600 BC? 600 BC?

First PhilosopherTried to figure natural causes of things

Predicted an eclipse

EpicurusEpicurus 400 BC400 BC

Preached epicureanism

Pleasure over pain

LycurgusLycurgus

Sparta lawmaker

ThemistoclesThemistocles

Led victory at Salamis

Convinced athenians to abandon Athens