Greek Civilization/Who am I

Aesop

Aesop

1. Born c. 600 b.c. and Died 560 b.c.

2. He was murdered by being thrown off a cliff

3. He wrote many famous fables (tortoise and the hare)

Achilles

1. He disguised himself as a girl

2. He killed Penthesila

3. He was a strong warrior in the greek army during the Trojan war

4. His heel was his weak spot

Zues

1. King of all the gods, goddesses, and the sky

2. Ruler, protected, and father of all gods and humans

3. Husband of Hera

Homer

1. Born between the 12th and 8th centuries b.c., around the coast of Asia Minor

2. Known for writing poems (The Iliad and The Odyssey 3.Had a great impact on western culture, but wasn't recognized

Sophocles

1. He was a greek tragedians whose plays are still playing to this day

2. He wrote 123 plays, only 7 were completed

3. He was highly educated

Euripides

1. Left Athens in 408 b.c. when he accepted an incision from the king of Macedonia

2. Died in Macedonia in 406 BCE

3. He was passionate about his ideas and owned a big library

Aristophanes

1. There are 11 known plays of his, but it is believed that he wrote over 40

2. He started the trend of the phrase 'Cloud Cuckoo Land'

3. One of his Plays contains the longest word in literature, Lopadotemachoseldachogaleokraniolepsanodrimhupotrimmatosilphioparaomelitoketeakechymenokucklepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonophtekephalliokigklopeleiolageiosiraiobaphetraganopterygron which is a fictional food dish containing meat, fish and wine

Aeschylus

1. He wrote 90 plays but only 7 survived

2. He was the first of the great Greek tragedians

3. His epitaph makes doesn't say anything about his plays, only about when he fought in war

Pythagoras

1. He was a mathematician and philosopher from Ancient Greece

2. He was born c. 470 b.c.e on Samos

3. He died c. 496 b.c. and the cause remains a mystery

4. Aristotle hailed Pythagoras as a supernatural thing

Socrates

1. Born c. 470 b.c.e. in Athens, died 399 b.c.e. in Athens

2. He studied socratic method

3. He did not teach anything, but only to seek answers to urgent questions

4. He studied Socratic Method

5. He wrote nothing, not in a journal or a book

Plato

1. Born 428/427 b.c.e. and died in 322 b.c.e.

2. One of the greatest philosopher to ever live and the first scientist ever

3. Made pioneering contribution to all fields of science and philosophy

4. He invented the field of formal logic and identified various disciplines and explored their relationships

Herodotus

1. Ambitious write and geographer

2. Invented the entire field of history

3. Was a great storyteller, and a powerful narrator

4. Recited his historical finding to audiences

Thucydides

1. Born 460 b.c.e. or earlier and died after 404 b.c.e

2. The greatest ancient Greek historian and the author of the History of the Peloponnesian War

3. His work was the first recorded political and moral analysis of a nation’s war policies

4. His father’s name was olorus

Philip II

1. Was a member of the Habsburg dynasty

2. Served as King of the Spaniards from 1556-1598

3. King of the Portuguese from 1580-1598

4. When under Philip’s control, the spanish empire was at it’s greatest power, extent, and influence

5. Born May 21, 1572

Alexander the great

1. He was taught by Aristotle

2. In the 15 years Alexander had conquest, he had never lost a battle

3. When alexander met his future wife, it was love at first sight

4. When he defeated the Persians, he started dressing like them

Demosthenes

1. Born 384 b.c.e. in Athens greece and died October 12, 322 b.c.e. in Calauria argolis

2. He was an Athenian statesman, recognized as one of the greatest of ancient greek orators

3. Was the son of a wealthy sword maker, his father died when he was 7 leaving a huge inheritance

4. When Demosthenes came of age, he received very little of his inheritance (lan) and sues his guardians

5. Had a speech defect so he spoke with pebbles in his mouth and practiced by speaking in a large mirror

6. At 20 years old, he was without a fortune, a trade, or a profession

7. Some people hired him so that he could talk in court on behalf of his client (like a lawyer)

8. At the age of 30 he made his first major speech

9. Studied in legal meteoric

10. Shaved half of his head

Apollonius of Rhodes

1. Ancient Greece Author, poet, librarian, and scholar

2. Born early 3rd century b.c.

3. Died late 3rd century b.c.

Theocritus

1. Born c. 300 b.c.e in Syracuse Italy, and died after 260 b.c.e

2. He was a greek poet and the creator of pastoral poetry

3. His idylls have none of the artificial prettiness of other pastoral poetry

Aristarchus

1. He worked for the belief of Heliocentrism and the attempts to determine the size and distances of the sun and moon.

2. He died c. 230 b.c.

3. A moon crater is named after him

Eratosthenes

1. Ancient Greek mathematician, geographer, and astronomer

2. Born in 276 b.c. and died 194 b.c.

3. Made the first accurate calculation of the Earth’s circumference

Archimedes

1. Borm c. 287 b.c.e. in Syracuse Italy, and died 212/211 b.c. Syracuse Italy

2. He invented the archimedes screw

3. He discovered a law of buoyancy

Euclid

One of the most famous mathematician

Hipparchus

1. He was born in iznik, Bithynia and died 127 b.c. in rhodes greece

2. He was a greek astronomer and mathematician

3. Very little was known about his life

Hippocrates

1. born in c. 460 b.c.e in Cos, greece and died c. 375 b.c.e. Lárissa

2. Physician who taught students

3. He is remembered for medical practice

Aristotle

1. Born in 384 b.c.e and died in 322 b.c.e

2. One of the greatest philosophers to ever live and the first scientist in history

3. Made pioneering contributions to all fields of science and philosophy

4. He invented the field of formal logic and identified various scientific disciplines and explored their relationships