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Greek scientists
Greek Scientists, philosophers, poets
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Founded cult of priesthood combining surgery and drugs | Asclepius |
| Daughter of Sargon | En Heddu Anna |
| Had conversations in agora | Socrates |
| Predicted eclipse in 585 b.c. | Thales |
| Hypothesized 4 elements--earth, air, water, fire | Aristotle |
| Turned questions of ethics and virtue away from heavenly bodies | Socrates |
| First to renounce mythology | Thales |
| Introduced "spirit system" | Galen |
| Convicted, believed in law and drank hemlock | Socrates |
| Deified--became Greek god of Medicine | Asclepius |
| Historian of the Peloponnesian War | Thucydides |
| Greatest hero of the Greeks | Achilles |
| Leader of Greeks, brother of Menelaus | Agamemnon |
| Mother of Achilles | Thetis |
| Father of Achilles | Peleus |
| Wife of Agamemnon in Iliad, also in Agamemnon | Clytemnestra |
| Wrote Theogony, Works and days, and The Shield of Herakles | Hesiod |
| forst to write odes to winners of Olympic games | Simonides |
| Founded school at Croton | Pythagoras |
| Understood that the Milky Way was a vast system of stars | Democritus |
| Found medical school at Cos | Hippocrates |
| Philosophized in astronomy--harmony of spheres | Pythagoras |
| Founded Academy, wrote The Republic | Plato |
| Aristotle's fifth element | ether |
| Founded hedonistic school that sought happiness through luxury and freedom from anxiety and fear | Epicurus |
| Wrote On Ancient Medicine | Hippocrates |
| Place where Euclid worked | Alexandria |
| Studied acoustics, finding that harmony happens when frequencies vibrate in small whole number ratios | Pythagoras |
| Invented philosophic argument | Plato |
| Wrote The Sacred Disease | Hippocrates |
| Used in finding greatest common divisor | Euclid's algorithm |
| Started Lyceum | Aristotle |
| astronomer who studied parallaxes; said that the lack of stellar parallaxes showed that stars were infinitely far away | Aristarchus |
| Created compound pulley, lever | Archimedes |
| Wrote about Socrates' death; wrote Socrates' dialogues | Plato |
| Made prime number sieve, measured Earth's curvature between two Egyptian cities | Eratosthenes |
| States that the number of prime numbers is infinite | Euclid's Second Theorem |
| Died in Euboea | Aristotle |
| Astronomer from Samos--310 to 230 B.C.--believed in heliocentricity | Aristarchus |
| Philosophized about taxonomy and meteorology | Aristotle |
| Astronomer who made first accurate prediction of Earth's circumference and polar diameter | Eratosthenes |
| Made mechanical model of sun, moon, and earth | Archimedes |
| Made first accurate star map--catalogued over 850 stars | Hipparchus |
| Worked with geography--developed latitude and longitude lines | Ptolemy |
| Estimated moon's size and distance from Earth relatively accurately | Hipparchus |
| Wrote On Plane Equilibriums, Quadrature of the Parabola, On the Sphere and the Cylinder, On Spirals, On Conoids and Spheroids, On Floating Bodies, Measurement of a Circle, and The Sandreckoner | Archimedes |
| Wrote On the Natural Facilities | Galen |
| Developed three methods for making map projections | Ptolemy |
| Considered founder of trigonometry--table of chords traced out by angles in a circle is forerunner to modern trig tables | Hipparchus |
| Legend says that he burnt Rome's ships when they were laying siege to Syracuse by reflecting the sun with a huge mirror | Archimedes |
| Combined theories of Aristotle and Hipparchus for a combined geocentric theory | Ptolemy |
| Performed extensive dissections of animals and humans, believed that blood came from the liver and sloshed around the body | Galen |
| 8th century BC poet, wrote dactyl hexameter | Homer |
| How were Homer's epics recited? | To the music of the cithara |
| First historian, wrote Histories | Herodotus |
| Wrote Anabasis, as well as short treatises | Xenophon |
| son of Anchises and Aphrodite in Iliad, escaped Troy and wandered | Aeneus |
| Helen's husband, declares war | Menelaus |
| Odyssey Cannibals | Laestrygones |
| 3 sons of Priam and Hecuba | Hector, Paris, Laocoon |
| Who are the father and wife of Odysseus | Laertes and Penelope |
| 45 intact odes, charged for odes to make a living, most famous poet of Olympic heroes | Pindar |
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