Greek Achievers - Math, Science, and History

Multiple Choice (10)

**Socrates**

philosopher who encouraged his students to examine and question their beliefs; believed absolute standard for truth and justice existed; was executed for corrupting the young and ignoring the city’s Gods

**Plato**

tutored Aristotle; was a poet and philosopher; and founded the “Academy”

**Aristotle**

studied at plato’s academy, tutored Alexander the Great with literature, science, and geography; Phillip the II conquered his land and asked Aristotle to tutor his son; Aristotle agreed only if his land and people were free

**Thucydides**

Greatest historian of the classical age; believed that certain types of events and political situations recur over time; wrote events of the Peloponnesian War

**Sophocles**

wrote more than 100 plays, wrote tragedies like Antigone

**Euripedes**

wrote Medea; works often displayed strong women

**Aristophanes**

wrote the first great comedies for the stage - The Birds and Lysistrata (women asking their husbands to end the Peloponnesian War)

**Herodotus**

a Greek historian who lived in Athens; wrote down the time of events accurately - favored bias over the Greeks

**Pythagorus**

 mathematician; invented the pythagorean theorem

**Hippocrates**

know as father of modern medicine; wrote 70 books with many medical practices; Hippocratic Oath

**Euclid**

mathematician; wrote Euclid's elements which contained modern geometry

**Archimedes**

mathematician; accurately estimated the value of pi

**Aristarchus**

debunked that the sun was smaller than Greece; proposed that the planets revolved around the sun

**Eratosthenes**

Director of the Alexandrian Library; closely calculated the size of Earth

**Epicurus**

author of an ethical philosophy of simple pleasure, friendship, and retirement.