Transcript Pythagoras c. 600 BC?

Plato
400 BC
Socrates’ student
Wrote The Republic – allegory of
the cave
Archimedes
c. 200 BC
Archimedes Principle
“Eureka!”
Calculated π closely
Great inventor – Archimedes’ screw
Killed while doing Math
Pericles
450 BC
Leader of Athens at its
height
Ordered the
Parthenon built
Pythagoras
c. 600 BC?
Pythagorean Theorem
a2+b2 = c2
Math “cult” – power of numbers
Euclid
300 BC
Collected all Geometry in “The Elements”
used for Euclidean geometry
Lived in Alexandria –
center of learning
Sophocles
400 BC
Famous Tragedy writer
Wrote Oedipus, Antigone
Socrates
400 BC
Most Famous Philosopher
Died for his beliefs - hemlock
“unexamined life is not worth living”
Socratic method- questioning
Euripides
400 BC
Tragedian
“Meaty” women’s roles - Medea
Aristophanes
400 BC
Greek Comedy – grandfather
of Comedy
The Frogs, The Birds, The Clouds
Made fun of everyone
Zeno
(of Citium
philosophy)
200 BC
Stoika poikile
the painted porch
Stoic Philosophy
Aristotle
400 BC
Student of Plato
Tutor of Alexander the Great
Prolific writer, thinker
biology, drama, physics, nature, ethics,
philospohy, logic
Eratosthenes
200 BC
Knew Earth was round
Measured Earth’s
Circumference
Cleisthenes
Set up Democracy
Leonidas
Spartan 300
Zeno (of Elea)
mathematician
500 BC
Mathematical paradoxes
Achilles and
the Tortoise
Homer
600 BC?
Wrote Iliad and Odyssey
Legendary?
Was blind?
Demosthenes
350 BC
Great Orator – The Philippics
Speech impediment
Practiced with stones in mouth
Solon
600 BC
Eliminated slavery for
indebtedness
Set stage for Athenian Democracy
Herodotus
500 BC
Father of History
Wrote about the Persian Wars
Used eyewitness interviews
Draco
700 BC
Harsh Laws
Alexander
“The Great”
350 BC
Conquered the Persian Empire
Sappho
600 BC
Woman poet – love poetry
Called the “tenth muse”
Hippocrates
400 BC
Father of medicine
Hippocratic Oath
”Do no harm”
Democritus
400 BC
Atomic Theory
atom= “uncuttable”
Thales
600 BC?
First Philosopher
Tried to figure natural causes of things
Predicted an eclipse
Epicurus
400 BC
Preached epicureanism
Pleasure over pain
Lycurgus
Sparta lawmaker
Themistocles
Led victory at Salamis
Convinced athenians to abandon
Athens