FREE QUIZ BOWL AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT ANCIENT

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FREE QUIZ BOWL AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT ANCIENT

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-Guarantee passing score -33 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: His trial, imprisonment, and death are recounted in Plato's Apology, Crito, and Phaedo, respectively.

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Socrates Question 2: He is sometimes thought of as the founder of a "Milesian school" of philosophy, whose other members include Anaximander and Anaximenes.

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Thales Question 3: His Poetics discusses the types of drama and considers an effect of tragedies known as catharsis, or the purging of bad feelings.

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Aristotle Question 4: His namesake school, Epicureanism, believed that pleasure was the highest (or only) good, and that the absence of pain (aponia) was the highest pleasure.

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Epicurus

Question 5: His Socratic dialogues are our main source both for Socrates's philosophy and his own; he often put his own thoughts in Socrates' mouth.

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Plato Question 6: In later centuries, he was accorded godlike status as one of the Three Pure Ones of Taoism, and is frequently depicted as an old man with a donkey. To him is attributed the quote "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

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Lao Tzu Question 7: founded a school called the Academy, from which we get the common word.

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Plato

Question 8: School of Epicurus

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Epicureanism Question 9: His paradoxes purport to show that physical movement is impossible, since any attempt to travel a distance must be preceded by moving half that distance, which must be preceded by moving half of half that distance, and so on.

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Zeno of Elea Question 10: The Cynics rejected conventional social norms in search of a truly virtuous life.

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Diogenes Question 11: Proclaiming his own ignorance of all things, he went around Athens engaging in Q&A sessions to search for truths or draw out contradictions. The Socratic Method

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Socrates

Question 12: Though he is better remembered today for his role in the political life of the Roman Republic, "Tully" was also a significant philosopher.

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Cicero Question 13: He himself was something of an eccentric-according to legend, he lived in a tub or a barrel on the street, and wandered Athens holding a lamp in his futile search for an honest man.

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Diogenes Question 14: Also a civil engineer and mathematician, he is credited with discovering that any triangle whose hypotenuse is the diameter of a circle must be a right triangle.

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Thales Question 15: A student of Antisthenes, who founded the ancient school of philosophy known as Cynicism. (The term "cynic" comes from the Greek for "dog-like," and is thought to have originated as an insult to the school's members.)

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Diogenes Question 16: He described the ideal state in such dialogues as On the Republic and On the Laws, while he discussed Epicurean and Stoic views on religion in On the Nature of the Gods.

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Cicero Question 17: A pivotal thinker from China's Spring and Autumn period, his views on proper conduct and filial piety still influence China to this day. Many sayings attributed to him were compiled by his disciples following his death in a text known as the Analects.

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Confucius Question 18: A student of Plato; in turn, he was a tutor to Alexander the Great. Many of his works come to us in the form of lectures he gave at his school, known as the Lyceum.

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Aristotle

Question 19: We have no writings from his own hand, and know about him largely from the dialogues of his student Plato.

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Socrates Question 20: Believed the best government would be one where philosopher-kings have the power

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Plato Question 21: Famous today for his paradoxes. His paradoxes purport to show that physical movement is impossible, since any attempt to travel a distance must be preceded by moving half that distance, which must be preceded by moving half of half that distance, & so on.

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Zeno of Elea Question 22: Virtues consist in a golden between 2 extremes: The Physics, which describes motion and change in terms of "4 causes" that make a given thing what it is; and the Metaphysics, which describes the structure of reality.

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Aristotle Question 23: The Athenian state disapproved of his conduct, and he was put on trial for corrupting the city's youth, which led to his death by drinking hemlock. His trial, imprisonment, and death are recounted in Plato's Apology, Crito, and Phaedo, respectively.

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Socrates Question 24: Believed in a world of "forms"-or ideal versions of real things that lie beyond the human senses-which he discussed in such works as the Phaedo.

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Plato Question 25: Student of Parmenides, who founded the Eleatic school in a Greek colony of the Italian peninsula. He is most famous today for his paradoxes, the best-known of which involve an arrow in flight and a race between Achilles and a tortoise.

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Zeno of Elea