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37 Cards in this Set
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isokrates
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first university
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lysia
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famous metic
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democedes
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doctor
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hippokrates
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doctor
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theophrastos
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inquiry into plants
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kleisthenes
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organized phylai
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thucydides
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exiled after scrutiny, wrote pelopennesan war, annalistic tradition
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themistokles
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convinced building of fleet
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sappho
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famous femal poet
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thales
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philo=water is source of all things
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anaximander
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earth is centre of universe
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anaximenes
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air is source of all things
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xenophanes and kolophon
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we make gods look like us
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parmenides
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change is impossible
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heraklitos
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unity of opposites and balance
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empedocles
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mixture of 4 elements and 2 forces
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demokritos
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atomic theory
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alkmaion
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principle of polarity
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sophokles
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writer of tragedy (oidipus tyrannos, antigone)
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iktinos
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works on the parthenon
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hippodamos
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books on town planning and civil engineering
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polykleitos
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symmetry of the human body, made doryphoros statue
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pythagoras
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all things are numerical relaitonships
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zenon
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paradoxes and infinity
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protagorus
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knowledge is relative, cant know about the gods, dissoi logoi
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hekataios
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logographer, wrote geneologies, earth includes europe and asia
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herodotos
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father of history
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xenophon
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wrote hellenika, memorabilia, cyropaedia, anabasis
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peisistratos
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made greatndionysia
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aiskhylos
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tradegy writer, wrote trilogy= oresteria
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euripides
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wrote media, and styra = cyclops
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aristophanes
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famous authos of old comedy
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kratinos
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comedy writer (flask)
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menander
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wrote dyskolos (new comedy)
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exekais
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famous potter, depicted ajax
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pheidias
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oversaw scultures of parthenoon
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iktinos and kallikrates
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architects
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