Socrates Review Questions

Why was Alcibiades bad?

Campaigned in Sicily for sacrilege. Was a traitor as he gave away Athens' war plans to the Spartans

What did Socrates suggest as an alternate punishment?

To be treated like an Olympic champion with free meals. Later changed to 1 mina/30 mina

This naval was a Pyrrhic victory

Arginusae

Colony that was going to be attacked but Diodotus convinced them otherwise

Mytilene

Themistocles used a vein of silver for what?

Convince Athens to use the money for a navy against a common enemy. He did not specifically say Persia.

Socrates' greatest contribution to morality is his insistence that...

morality is universal and absolute

This man claimed to be a student but ruled as a dictator of the Thirty Tyrants

Critias (Nazi)

"Man is the center of all"

Protagoras said this as he created anthropocentric theory and was an atheist

The battle of Syracuse

Naval battle during the Peloponnesian War and they lost because of a religious vision

Architect of the Parthenon who used entasis to create non straight lines

Ictinus

What Persian leader tried to avenge his Father's death by attacking Athens?

Xerxes

Recognized the case against Socrates was just jealousy, especially when he experienced the same reaction to his religious prophecy.

Euthyphro

Pericles proposed this plan when fighting Sparta

Avoid land conflict and hide behind a wall. All food and materials were brought in by the navy port. This backfired as a plaque started inside the walls.

The funeral Oration claims that Athens is different from every other polis because of this

Equality before the law and equality of opportunity

1st confrontation with King Darius and left the Athenians victorious

Battle of Marathon

What is the Euthyphro dilemma

Is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?

Who recorded the Greco-Persian War

Herodotus

Who recorded the Peloponnesian War?

Thucydides

In his funeral oration this man called Athens the school of Hellas

Pericles

What is the most important quote from Socrates?

"Unexamined life is NOT worth living"