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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Greek philosopher of Athens; his teaching style was based on asking questions. He wanted people to question their own beliefs. He was arrested and condemned to death for challenging authority. | Socrates |
| Greek philosopher; a student of Socrates, he started school in Athens called the Academy. In The Republic he describes an ideal society run by philosopher-kings. | Plato |
| Greek philosopher and student of Plato; he taught that logic was the tool for any necessary inquiry; his work later became the basis for medieval scholasticism. | Aristotle |
| Clear and ordered thinking. | Reason |
| The process of making inferences. | Logic |
| Greek poet, he wrote the epic the epic poems the Illiad and the Odyssey, which tell stories set during and after the Trojan War. | Homer |
| A type of poetry that gained its name from the lyre, an instrument that played while the poetry was sung. | Lyric Poetry |
| Greek historian; his most famous work is The Histories, which describes major events of the Persian Wars. | Herodotus |
| Greek historian of Athens; he wrote The History of the Pelopnnesian War. He is regarded as the first critical historian and is often ranked as the greatest historian of antiquity. | Thucydides |
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