104-108 Flashcards
Historian who was more factual
Thucydides
First historian
Herodotus
Playwright who wrote Oresteia
Aeschylus
Playwright who wrote Oedipus The King
Sophocles
Plays had how many actors?
3
Playwright who made more realistic characters and wrote Antigone
Euripides
Wrote comedy plays such as Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Fifth century sculptor who had proportions of a human body to a math
Polyclitus
Means ‘love of wisdom’
Philosophy
Said that all living things were linked to water
Thales
Stated that the essence of the universe was in music and numbers
Pythagoras
A group of philosophers that believed that the understanding of the universe was beyond the human mind
Sophists
The art of persuasive oratory
Rhetoric
Philosopher that did not leave any writings, and used the question-and-answer method.
Socrates (using the Socratic method)