Great Greeks and their contributions
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Great Greeks and their contributions
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Socrates- 500 BCE
• Greek philosopher• Used Socratic method of teaching• Teacher asks series of questions, pretends to be
ignorant to expose flaws in student’s logic• Took an opinion & showed how it was not logical• Social & moral critic• "I only know that I know nothing“• Died by drinking hemlock• Lived at same time as Buddha and Confucius
The Death of Socrates painted in 1787 by Jacques Louis David (French Neoclassical painter)
Plato- 350 BCE• Greek philosopher• In Athens, founded the
world’s first university- The Academy
• Wrote The Republic• Wrote dialogues, which
are conversations between two people
• Took a thing and defined it
• “What is justice?”
Aristotle- 340 BCE• Greek philosopher• Student of Plato• Teacher of Alexander the
Great• Was more practical than
Plato; logical thinker• Study by scientific method• Used deductive
reasoning; he took a thing & broke it down into parts
• “Moderation in all things”Major premise: All humans are mortal. Minor premise: Socrates is a human.Conclusion: Socrates is mortal.
Euclid- 300 BCE
• Greek mathematician know as the “father of geometry”
• Elements, the book he wrote, is considered the foundation for teaching mathematics
Thucydides- 460 BCE • Greek historian and
author• Wrote
History of the Peloponnesian War which recounts the war between Sparta and Athens
• Wrote with great accuracy & without bias
• Interviewed soldiers on both sides of the war
Hypatia- 400 AD or CE• Female mathematician,
astronomer, Neoplatonist philosopher (takes things & defines them)
• Educated in Athens and Italy
• Taught at the Museum of Alexandria in Egypt
• First notable women in mathematics
Who am I? Great GreeksSelect from the following Greek figures from the arts & sciences:
Hypatia, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Thucydides
1. I am a philosopher who teaches people to question.2. I love history and wrote all about the Peloponnesian War.3. I studied math and help contribute to better understanding 3 dimensional space,
angles, and triangles.4. I wrote “The Republic” and wrote down all that Socrates had to say.5. I was a teacher and Alexander the Great was one of my students.6. I was a Greek woman who lived in Egypt.7. I was the father of geometry.8. I used logic and took things and broke it into parts.9. I wrote many dialogues and founded the world’s first university called “The
Academy”.10. I believe that you shouldn’t memorize the opinions of others, but think and question
for yourself.11. I think that girls can also be brilliant in math and science.12. I think you should go to college.13. Avoid extremes, and do things in moderation- not too little, not too much.