1. “The School of Athens” Painting by Raphael 1510 A.D. START HERE
This painting is by the Renaissance artist, R_____________. It is called “The School of A___________.” It depicts various philosophers from as early as 600 B.C. to as late as Raphael’s time, 1510 A.D. The Greek word, philosophy, means a lover of w__________ or t_____________.
Draw arrows to these people in the picture above. Put a symbol and/or word next to each one’s name to remind you of his particular philosophy. Also write down the dates of when each lived.
Socrates Zoroaster
Plato Ptolemy
Aristotle Raphael
Pythagoras Sodoma
Euclid
Zoroaster
Sodoma
Plato
Socrates
Aristotle
Averroes
Diogenes
Euclid
Ptolemy
Zenophon
Zeno
Parmenides
Epicurus
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Hippocrates
Pythagoras
Raphael

2. Slide #2
Philosophers
During the Golden Age of Athens (500’s B.C.), Greeks grew dissatisfied with the mythological explanations of the world. They searched for t_____ through reason. This is called philosophy. The Greek words are below.
ruth
phileo sophos =
cherish/value + wisdom/truth =
philosophy
value wisdom/truth

3. Slide #3
Socrates B.C.
Socrates instructed his students in Athens to “know t_______.” He thought that if people really knew themselves, they would seek j_______, truth and goodness. He taught by asking q________
hyself
ustice
uestions.

4. Greek Philosophers “The School of Athens” by Raphael
Slide #4
Greek Philosophers
Plato ( BC) - He pointed u__, emphasizing that he believed ultimate reality was in things we cannot s___, such as ideas and thoughts. Plato was a student of S______.
Democritus - ( B.C.) Democritus explained that everything in the u___________ was composed of tiny, i___________, solid particles floating in space. His belief laid the basis for the a___________ theory. p
Aristotle ( BC) - He spread his hand ______, emphasizing what we can see and touch. He was a student of ________.
down ee
Aristarchus - ( B.C.) He proposed the theory that the e_______ revolved around the s_____.
Plato
ocrates
Hippocrates ( B.C.) He was the first d________ who looked for natural causes for diseases.
What is ultimate reality?
He made famous the Hippocratic o________

5. Slide #5
Zoroaster ( BC) - The bearded man is Zoroaster, a philosopher from Persia. He is holding a celestial globe. He proposed the philosophy that everything is a s_______ between the impersonal forces of light and darkness.
truggle

6. Mathematicians
Slide #6
Pythagoras (about 580 BC) - He was a mathematician who made important discoveries in _________. His experiments were the f____ in western science.
Euclid (around 300 BC) - He wrote the first ______ on geometry.
Pythagoras - around 580 B. C.; He was a mathematician who made important discoveries in g___________. His experiments were the f_______ in western science.
E_________ - about 300 B.C. He wrote the first b________ on geometry.
book
geometry
irst

7. Slide #7
Pythagoras observed that when the blacksmith struck his anvil, different notes
were produced according to the weight of the hammer. He observed that if you
take two strings in the same degree of tension, and then divide one of them exactly
in half, when they are plucked the pitch of the shorter string is exactly one octave
higher than the longer:
He also discovered that if the length of the two strings are in relation to each other
2:3, the difference in pitch is called a fifth:
...and if the length of the strings are in relation to each other 3:4, then the difference
is called a fourth.
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