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13 Cards in this Set
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Who wrote The Illiad and the Oddysey?
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Homer
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Who was the woman who wrote lyric poetry about friendship and love?
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Sappho
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What kind of writer was Aristophanes?
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a Greek comedy writer
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Who was the father of History?
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Heradotus
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What was different about Thucydides and Herodotus in the terms of being historians?
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Thucydides used primary sources
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What did Aristarchus believe about the earth?
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That the earth revolves around the sun
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Who were the two mathemiticians in geometry?
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Pythagoras and Euclid
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Who wrote the textbook on geometry that was used until 1900?
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Euclid
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This man came wrote this oath that medical professionals still take today. Who is he?
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Hippocrates who found that natural causes for diseases
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What did Socrates believe the way of knowledge was?
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To ask questions.
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Why was Socrates sentences to death?
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He was accused of corrupting the youth and atheism.
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How did Socrates die?
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He was poisoned with hemloc.
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Who was a blind poet?
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Homer
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