Classics Midterm - Authors

Who wrote about the division of gender roles in the home

Xenophon

Who wrote about the victors of the olympics

Pindar

Who wrote about female protagonists with emotional realism

Europides

Who wrote about the description of Greece and the Olympics

Pausanias

Who wrote about gymnastics in the Olympics

Philostratus

Who wrote abut the birth of the gods

Hesiod

Who wrote about the trojan war

Homer

Who wrote about lesbian sexual fantasy

Sappho

Who wrote about Homer creating the beginning of plot and tragedy

Aristotle

Who wrote that some people are slaves by nature

Aristotle

Who wrote about how with the advent of hoplites, democracy was started

Aristotle

Who wrote plays with scenery

Sophacles

Who wrote about the ideas of fate

Sophacles

Who wrote about the fall of troy being related to the fight between Achilles and Memnon

Smyrnaeus

Who wrote about tragedy and humour

Aeschylus

Who wrote about mythical stories and the battle of Salamis

Aeschylus

Who wrote about the architects of the Parthenon

Plutarch

Who wrote about Solon’s impact on Athens

Plutarch

Who wrote about Spartan war customs and beliefs

Plutarch

Who wrote about Aristotle teaching Alexander the Great

Plutarch

Who wrote about Lycurgus travelling around the world and meeting with the gymnosophists

Plutarch

Who wrote about Greek art overlooking anatomy for emotional prevalence

Darwin

Who wrote about Achilles relationship with Patroclus

Plato

Who wrote about the Socratic Paradox

Plato

Who wrote about the death of Socrates

Plato

Who wrote about the symposium, high love (man and man) and reproductive love (man and woman)

Plato

Who wrote about Homer “educated the Greeks”

Plato

Who wrote about Spartans oiling themselves for the Olympics

Thucydides

Who wrote about the common nudity at the Olympics

Thucydides

Who wrote that slaves are a byproduct of war

Thucydides

Who wrote that philosophy became the backbone of the polis

Thucydides