Chapter 5 IDs
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 homer | ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BC) |
| aesop | Greek writer of fables. |
| sophocles | one of the great tragedians of ancient Greece (496-406 BC) |
| euripides | one of the greatest tragic dramatists of ancient Greece (480-406 BC) |
| pythagoras | Greek philosopher and mathematician who proved the Pythagorean theorem |
| socrates | an Athenian stonemason and philosopher |
| plato | one of Socrates' students; was considered by many to be the GREATEST philosopher of western civilization. Plato explained his ideas about government in a work entitled The Republic. In his ideal state, the people were divided into three different groups. |
| aristotle | Greek philosopher; teacher of Alexander the Great; knowledge based on observation of phenomena in material world |
| herodotus | wrote about persian war, father of history, word history comes from name, 1st to gather facts and write them down |
| thucydides | Greek historian. Considered the greatest historian of antiquity, he wrote a critical history of the Peloponnesian War that contains the funeral oration of Pericles |
| philip II | son of Louis VII whose reign as king of France saw wars with the English that regained control of Normandy and Anjou and most of Poitou (1165-1223) |
| alexander the great | son of Philip II; received military training in Macedonian army and was a student of Aristotle; great leader; conquered much land in Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, and Mesopotamia; goal was to conquer the known world |
| theocritus | a poet who wrote short poems about the beauty of nature., wrote "little poems" or idylls dealing with erotic themes, lovers' complaints, and above all, pastoral themes expressing his love of nature and his appreciation of nature's beauty |
| aristarchus | He was the first person to present an explicit argument for a heliocentric model of the solar system, placing the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the known universe (hence he is sometimes known as the "Greek Copernicus") |
| eratosthenes | (276?-196? BCE), Greek mathematician, astronomer, and geographer who measured the circumference of the Earth. His measurement was only off by 15%. |
| euclid | He is the father of geometry and wrote a book explaining geometry that was used as a text book till the 1900 |
| archimedes | This man is considered the greatest thinker of his era, a great mathematician and physicist who explained the principle of the lever and other inventions. |
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