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| "Man is the measure of all things." Thought society should judge right from wrong and determine what was just in any given situation. |
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| Philosopher who asked many questions to spur thought on subjects. Was sentenced to death for corrupting the youth to question Athenian leaders, drank poisonous hemlock and died. |
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| Started the Academy, wrote The Republic |
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| Plato's pupil who wrote Politics. Seemingly more "down to earth" than Plato. Wrote about biology, mathematics, astronomy, physics, ethics, logic, and politics. |
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| Believed that living a life without extremes was the best way to lessen pain and increase pleasure. |
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| People who accepted what happened to them as the will of God, causing them to act indifferent towards anything that happened to them, good or bad. |
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| Considered by many as the father of tragedy. Wrote The Oresteia, a series of three plays about the Trojan war. |
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| Wrote Oedipus Rex. The most important of Greek tragedians. |
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| Wrote critically about the ways of the Human and gods. |
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| Ridiculed important citizens and politicians in his plays. |
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| Wrote History of the Persian Wars, not everything he wrote was true. |
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| Wrote History of the Peloponnesian War. He was accurate in historic events. |
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| Laid down the elements of plane and solid geometry. |
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| Discovered water displacement method for finding volume. |
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| Founded medical school. "Every disease has a natural cause." |
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