Presocratics Review Guide

PHL/CNE 370 Review Guide for Presocratics Exam

1. Who was Homer? When did he live? What two great works are attributed to him?
2. Who was Hesiod? When did he live? What works are attributed to him?
3. How did Homer and Hesiod describe the origin of the world? How did they conceive of the gods? How does a male god come to rule over his father and other gods?
4. What is a muthos? What is a theogony? What is a cosmogony? What is a cosmology? What is a phusikos? What is anthropomorphization?
5. Who was Thales? What city was he from? When did he live? Where is that city on a map of the Mediterranean region? Identify fragments attributed to him.
6. What is monism? What is pantheism? What is hylozoism? What is a zoogony? What is a zoology? Who was D.L.?
7. Who was Anaximander? What city was he from? When did he live? Where is that city on a map of the Mediterranean region? What were his ideas? Identify fragments attributed to him.
8. Who was Anaximenes? What city was he from? When did he live? Where is that city on a map of the Mediterranean region? What were his ideas? Identify fragments attributed to him.
9. Who was Pythagoras? What city was he from? When did he live? Where is that city on a map of the Mediterranean region? What were his ideas? Identify fragments attributed to him. What important word was he the first to coin? What is Orphism? What is numerology? Who were the mathematikoi? Who were the akousmatikoi?
10. Who was Philolaus? What city was he from? When did he live? Where is that city on a map of the Mediterranean region? What were his ideas? Identify fragments attributed to him.
11. Who was Xenophanes? What city was he from? When did he live? Where is that city on a map of the Mediterranean region? What were his ideas? Identify fragments attributed to him.
12. Who was Heraclitus? What city was he from? When did he live? Where is that city on a map of the Mediterranean region? What were his ideas? Identify fragments attributed to him.
13. Who was Parmenides? What city was he from? When did he live? Where is that city on a map of the Mediterranean region? What were his ideas? Identify fragments attributed to him.
14. What was the name of Parmenides' student who visited Athens with him c. 450 BCE? What city was he from? When did he live? Where is that city on a map of the Mediterranean region? What were his ideas? What is a paradoxa? Identify fragments attributed to him. What did Aristotle say this guy was the first to discover?
15. Who was Anaxagoras? What city was he from? When did he live? What was he exiled from Athens for? Where is that city on a map of the Mediterranean region? What were his ideas? Identify fragments attributed to him.
16. Who was Empedocles? What city was he from? When did he live? What apocryphal story does D.L. relate about how he died? Where is that city on a map of the Mediterranean region? What were his ideas? Identify fragments attributed to him.
17. Who was Leucippus? What city was he from? When did he live? Where is that city on a map of the Mediterranean region? What were his ideas? Identify fragments attributed to him.
18. Who was Democritus? What city was he from? When did he live? Where is that city on a map of the Mediterranean region? What were his ideas? Identify fragments attributed to him. What does abderian mean?
19. Who was Protagoras? What city was he from? When did he live? Where is that city on a map of the Mediterranean region? What were his ideas? Identify fragments attributed to him.
20. Who was Gorgias? What city was he from? When did he live? Where is that city on a map of the Mediterranean region? What were his ideas? Identify fragments attributed to him.
21. Who was Prodicus and what city was he from? Who was Hippias and what city was he from? When did they live?
22. Who was Antiphon? What city was he from? When did he live? Where is that city on a map of the Mediterranean region? What were his ideas? Identify fragments attributed to him.