Things you should know... Flashcards
“Master, remember the Athenians.”
Darius had never heard of Athens before, so after they burned Sardis(497), he had a servant constantly say this so that he would never forget what they’ve done.
“Love of Wisdom”
Pythagoras. Describes understanding as philosophy. 703.
“Go, Stranger, and tell the Leoedaemonians that we be here be here in obedience to their law.”
Placed over the tomb of the Spartans who died at the Battle of Thermopylae.
“So much the better, we will fight in the shade.”
Spoken by Dienekes during the Battle of Thermopylae because the Persian army was so large that their arrows would block the sun.
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates
“Man is the measure of all things.”
Protagorus
“MIGHT MAKES RIGHT!”
Athenian justification for the Massacre at Melos(416).
“thalatta”
Upon reaching Asia Minor, Xenophon and the Greeks shouted this. Means “sea”.
“Make peace with the enemy.”
Epaminondas said this on his deathbed to Thebes
“Behold the man who would pass from Europe to Asia and trips in passing from couch to couch.”
Alexander to Philip
“If I were not Alexander, I would want to be Diogenes.”
Alexander greatly admired Diogenes.
“to the strongest”
Alexander on his deathbed.
“Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.”
Pericles
Pericles’ mistress
Aspasia
Socrates’ wife
Xanthippe
