Artist And Their Works

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Sumerian

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Ancient Near East: Gilgamesh King Uruk Search for Imortatlity

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Sumerian

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Ancient Near East: Enuma Elish - poem about creation and flood

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Hesiod

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Ancient Greece: Works and Days (farmers); Theogony (gods)

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Archchilochus

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Ancient Greece: 7th century Lyricist

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Pindar

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Ancient Greece : Wrote odes of victory

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Sappho of Lebos

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Ancient Greece : 7th century love poetry about atrraction to other women

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Aeschylus

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Ancient Greece: Tragedian -The persian, Prometheus Bound, Oresteia Trilogy

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Sophocles

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Ancient Greece: Tregedian Oedipus, Antigone

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Euripides

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Ancient Greece: Tregedian - Medea

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Aristophanes

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Ancient Greece: Comedy - The Acharnians, Lysistrata, the Frog

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Herodotus

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Ancient Greece: Father of history - Persian War

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Thucydides

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Ancient Greece: Historian - Peloponnesian War

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Plato

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Ancient Greece: the Dialogues

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Zeno of Citium

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Ancient Greece: Founded Stocism

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Catullus

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Ancient Rome: Love lyrics about Lucretius; poem On the Nature of Things

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Cato the Elder

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Ancient Rome: manual On Agriculture - Earliest Known prose

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Virgil

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Ancient Rome: Golden Age Poet - Aeneid, modeled on Homer. Foundation of Rome by Trojan Prince Aeneas

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Horace

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Ancient Rome: Golden Age Poet - Wrote lyrics on various themes

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Ovid

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Ancient Rome: Golden Age Poet - Wrote Metamorphoses, myth of transformation; On the Art of Love, seduction manual

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Livy

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Ancient Rome: Historian - Golden age greatest prose author

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Tacitus

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Ancient Rome: Silver Age historian - wrote the Germania, deplores Rome Character

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Seneca

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Ancient Rome: Silver Age philosopher - wrote tragedies, executed by Nero.

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Lucan

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Ancient Rome: Silver Age Nephew of. Seneca - wrote Pharsalia, describes war between Caesar and Pompey. Also executed.

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Persius, Petronious, Juvenal

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Ancient Rome: Silver Age Satirists that vented their frustration about the decline of morals in Rome

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Apuleius

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Ancient Rome: Philosopher who wrote the first Latin novel the Golden Ass

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Marcus Aurelius

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Ancient Rome: Emperor (161-180) wrote a Stoic phlosophy called Meditations.

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Galen

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Ancient Rome scientific author - wrote a systematic theory of medicine

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Ptolemy

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Ancient Rome scientific author - wrote a book of astronomy called Almagest, supported geocentric theory.

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Twelve Tables

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Ancient Rome: original written code of law constantly updated

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Corpus Juris Civilis (civil law)

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Ancient Rome: final codification of law ordered by Justinian (527-565),

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Codex Theodosianus

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collection of imperial legislation codified by Theodosisus II

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Liberal Arts - Trivium

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Middle Ages: grammar, rhetoric, and logic

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Mathematical - Quadrivium

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Middle Ages: arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music

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Aristotle

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Liberal arts (logic) in the middle ages relied on the writings of Aristotle

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Boethius

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Roman scholar who studied Plato and Aristotle, wrote The consolation of Philosophy and translated Aristotelian Organon

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Peter Abelard

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Middle Ages : Teacher of Theology, promoted the use of logic in Sic et Non,affair and married student Heloise, castrated

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St. Thomas Aquinas

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Middle Ages: Summa Theologiae (Summary of Theology), reconcile faith with reason, used Aristotelian concepts.

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Nominalism

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Objected that the universe is merely words (nomina) used to describe abstractions

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William Ockham

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Develop principle of "Ockham's Razor," logical explanation for existence of presumed entity reduced to smallest possible number of elements.

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Marsilius of Padua

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Wrote Defender of Peace (1324), argues that political authority is derived from the people. Opposed papal claims to political power.

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Pope Sylvester II

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Introduced Aribic numerals to Christian Europe

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Roger Bacon

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English thinker developed theory of experimental science with Robert Grosseteste

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Gerbert of Aurillac

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invented pendulum clock in 10th century

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Beowulf

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Anglo-Saxon, Old English, major epic, hero's quest to vanquish errible monsters.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Wrote Canterbury Tales, short stories in verse, Middle English

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Dante Alighieri

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Wrote Divine Comedy- Italian vernacular literature with three parts: Inferno, Pugatorio, Paradiso

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Francesco Petrarch

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Florentine author who championed revival of pure Latin

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Giovanni Boccaccio

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Most famous work during the middle ages was Decameron, bawdy stories, women staying in countryside to escape black death