Flashcards: Vocabulary #10
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titansforever on November 30, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Aesop | a Greek slave who wrote fables where animals act like human |
| Homer | an important poet in Greek history who is famous for two of his epic poems - the Iliiad and the Odyssey |
| Sophocles | one of the three best known writers of Greek tragedies |
| Daedalus | an architect for King Minos |
| Icarus | son of Daedalus |
| Cupid | Greek god of love |
| Pythagoras | a Greek philosopher who taught his pupils that the universe followed the same laws that governed music and numbers |
| Sophists | professional teachers in Ancient Greece |
| Socrates | an Athenian sculptor whose true love was philosophy |
| Plato | a philosopher who wrote the Republic, which tells about his view of the government |
| Aristotle | wrote more than 200 books on topics ranging from government to the planets and stars |
| Alexander the Great | a great military leader |
| Eratosthenes | an astronomer who was in charge of the library at Alexandria |
| Euclid | the most famous Greek mathematician |
| Archimedes | the most famous scientist of the Hellenistic Era |
| Apollo | Greek god of the sun |