Topic 5-09 - The Greek Mind - Study Guide & Review Questions

Thinkers who created new bodies of knowledge such as history, political science, biology, and logic were known as?

• Roman rhetoricians

• Medieval scholastics

• Enlightenment philosophers

• Philosophers

A way of teaching by asking questions that is still used today?

• Socratic method

• Lecture method

• Demonstration method

• Interactive discussion

An ancient historian who believed in accurate, eyewitness reporting of events.

• Plutarch

• Thucydides

• Tacitus

• Herodotus

A traveling professional teacher was known as a ____________________________

• mentor

• educator

• sophist

• tutor

This philosopher taught the universe was governed by the same laws as music and numbers.

• Plato

• Pythagoras

• Aristotle

• Socrates

The word philosophy means...

• the love of war

• the love of wisdom

• the study of existence

• the science of reasoning

Socrates was an Athenian sculptor whose true love was... ____________________________

• Philosophy

• Math

• English

• Spanish

After he compared 158 governments to find the best one, who wrote the book Politics?

• Plato

• Socrates

• Aristotle

• Cicero

Who is considered to be the father of history? ____________________________

• Thucydides

• Herodotus

• Plutarch

• Tacitus

Student of Socrates who wrote The Republic?

• Pythagoras

• Aristotle

• Xenophon

• Plato