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.