paidagogos Curriculum Literature Music Physical education
Literature Reading, writing, basic arithmetic Works of Homer
Music Use in poetry, developing character Singing, playing lyre and aulos Physical education For wars and games
Mid-5th c. BC Sophists (“experts”) starting to appear in Athens Demand for training in rhetoric, argumentation, philosophical reasoning, science Popularity of rhetoric because of applications Bad reputation
“Socratic method” 399 BC Death of Socrates
Sources on Socrates: Aristophanes (d. c. 380 BC) Plato (d. 347 BC) Xenophon (d. before 350 BC)
Plato (d. 347 BC) Isocrates (d. 338 BC)
Aristotle (d. 322 BC) Polymath Use of empirical observation
Pythagoras (d. c. 500 BC) Irrational numbers, e.g. √2
Greek medicine Greek doctors famous as early as 6th c. BC 5th-4th c. BC Emergence of two schools in Ionia and S. Italy Hippocratic Corpus ascribed to Hippocrates of Cos (d. c. 375 BC)
Greek medicine Four humours: blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile Treatments incl. blood-letting, drugs, diet, exercise, surgery (rarely) Asklepios
Greek medicineFrom the Hippocratic Oath “I will pay the same respect to my master in Science as to my parents and share my life with him and pay all my debts to him. I will regard his sons as my brothers and teach them the Science, if they desire to learn it, without fee or contract. I will hand on precepts, lectures and all other learning to my sons, to those of my master, and to those pupils duly apprenticed and sworn, and to none other…”