Part Four Flashcards
In which dialogue of Plato does he tell the story of Atlantis?
Timaeus
Who was Xenophon a student of?
Socrates
Who was Plato a student of?
Socrates
Who was Alcibiades a student of?
Socrates
What Cynic philosopherwrote satires that combined prose and poetry?
Menippus
Who was the original developer of atomic theory?
Leucippus
On the Crown was a speech given by Demosthenes in response to which speech of Aeschines?
Against Ctesiphon
What literary genre was established by Susarion?
Comedy
What is the only complete play of Menander that survives to today?
Dyskolos
To whom is Works and Dayswritten?
Perses
Who constructed the first map of the Earth?
Anaximander
What poet referred to themselves as the nightingale of Ceos?
Bacchylides
Who introduced female characters to tragedy?
Phrynicus
Who wrote 14 books on Assyrian and Persian history?
Ctesias
Who developed the first theory of a heliocentric solar system?
Aristarchus
Who was the author of Milesian Tales?
Aristides
Agathon and Astydamas wrote in which genre?
Tragedy
Who invented the fable?
Aesop
At which of the Panhellenic festivals was a crown of bay leaves given to the victors?
Pythian games
In what year did Sophocles win 1stplace at the Dionysia, beating out Aeschylus?
468 B.C.
Which conflict did the historian Thucydideswrite about?
Peloponnesian War
According to Homer, spear shafts were made of what material?
ash wood
What statesman was also a poet who wrote in the model of Tyrtaeus?
Solon
In which play of Aristophanes is Cleon mocked?
The Wasps