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23 Cards in this Set
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explained phenomenas through belief in 1 or more elements; Thales of Miletus; started fundamental breakaway from Homeric society
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Materialists
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4 elements; earth, air, water, fire; Anaxagoras of Clazomenae; unity through love, separation through war
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Empedocles of Acragus
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infinite number of small particles; dominant substances and stray particles; unity in nature from force of reason
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Anaxagoras of Clazomenae
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School in S. Italy; followers pure, devout, moral, chaste & harmonious for common good; morality in universe=harmony of spheres; mathematical theorem
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Pythagoras
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2 separate universes: 1 subjct. to change, 1 perfect; perfct. world realized through reason
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Dualists
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Main proponent of dualism; focused on process whereby matter changes
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Heraclitus of Ephesus
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perfct world is all-perfect, unchanging; no time or motion
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Parmenides of Elea
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presented paradoxes later discussed by Plato and Aristotle
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Zeno
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Led by Leucippus and Democritus; atoms small & indivisible; schools difficult to understand (cryptc. phrases, love of knowledge)
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Atomism
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"Man is the measure of all things..."
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Protagoras
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First historian
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Herodotus
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Writing teeming with passion and emotion
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Sappho
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writing revolves around conflict
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Heraclitus of Ephesus
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Probing all-being
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Parmenides of Elea
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story of Persians and Greeks
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Herodotus
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unbiased, shrewd, detailed observation, reliable sources
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Strengths of Heroditus' Writing
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Little knowledge of military strategy, little focus on political reasons behind actions
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Weaknesses of Heroditus' Writing
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works deeply aware of human weakness; recognizes that what is right is painful; wrote Agamemnon (Ortesia trilogy); violence breeds violence; noble view of humans
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Aeschylus
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most prosperous and successful playwright; choice b/w good and evil never easy; our destiny is in the hands of the gods; Oedipus the King
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Sophocles
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weariness and disillusion of war-torn years; exposes social, political and religious injustices; skeptical of gods; hatred for war; realistic belief in human progress
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Euripides
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Athenian; futility of war; combines polit. satire and fantasy;The Birds; Lysistrata
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Aristophanes
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grammar, rhetoric, dialectic
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trivium
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arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy
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quadrivium
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