A. Socrates
1. Education is key to personal growth
2. Socratic Method - learning through questioning
B. Plato
1. Student of Socrates
2. Founded Academy
3. Wrote dialogues
4. Theory of Forms
a. Material things were imperfect expressions of perfect & universal things
5. Religious philosophy
a. “Divine worker” - God
b. Realm of perfection separate from reality
c. Reincarnation - reunite soul & form
6. Government
1. Republic
a. Views of perfect society
b. Aristocracy - rule by upper class
c. Ruler - philosopher
1) Wisdom
2) Ability
3) High ideals
C. Aristotle
1. Student of Plato
2. Everything studied logically
a. Organization system: classification
3. Ethics - what brings happiness
4. Poetics - analyzed Greek plays
D. Writing history
1. Herodotus - Father of History
a. 1st Western historian
b. Noted observed vs. retold
2. Thucydides
a. History of the Peloponnesian War
b. Past helps understanding of human nature (accurate)
E. Drama - plays containing action or dialogue; involve conflict or emotion
1. Men only
2. Chorus - narrators
3. Orchestra - “stage”
4. Coincided w/ festivals (Great Dionysia)
5. Tragedies - struggle against fate
a. Hubris - sin of pride
b. Aeschylus - religion (gods & people)
c. Sophocles - Greek values
1) Oedipus Rex
d. Euripides - realist
1) The Trojan Women