Lesson 23 Flashcards
Athenian teacher and philosopher
Socrates
Socrates’ question-and-answer method of teaching
Socratic method
wife of Socrates
Xanthippe
philosopher; pupil of Socrates; carried on Socrates’ work and wrote Socrates’ teachings
Plato
Plato’s open-air school at Athens
Academy
“What! Would you have me die guilty?”
Socrates
“You can bury my body; you cannot put me into a grave.”
Socrates
“My judges, you go now to your homes, I to prison and to death. But which of the two is the better lot, God only knows.”
Socrates
“Thus died the man who was in death the noblest we have ever known, in life, the wisest and the best.”
Plato
poisonous plant used for executions in ancient Greece
hemlock
the love and pursuit of wisdom
philosophy
fortune; choice
lot