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535 BCE
Heraclitus
He had many different and strange ideas. He said life is always changing, and that you can't step in the same river twice. -
525 BCE
Aechylus
He wrote a play sponsored by Pericles in 474 BC about the Persian War. He also wrote the famous trilogy, The Orchestra. He wrote over eighty plays, but only seven survived. -
496 BCE
Sophocles
He played a leading role in a play about the victory over the Persians in Salamis.He was thirty years younger, but was still Aeschylus' rival. He was famous for his play, Oedipus the King. -
495 BCE
Empedocles
He believed everything came from earth, air, fire, and water. -
494 BCE
Pericles
He was a leader and general of Athens. He supported dramatists, painters, sculptors, and architects. He also rebuilt the Acropolis. His key to success was his skill as an orator, or public speaker. -
480 BCE
Euripides
During his lifetime he wrote eighty to ninety plays, but he received less awards. He was popular with many Athenian audiences. -
470 BCE
Socrates
He was known for asking questions that made people examine their lives. He said people that knew the difference between right and wrong couldn't choose to do wrong. He was arrested for corrupting the youth, and was forced to drink hemlock, a type of poison. -
455 BCE
Aristophanes
In his plays,he made fun of statesmen like Pericles, dramatists like Euripides, and philosophers like Socrates. -
427 BCE
Plato
He was a student of Socrates. Plato tried to understand what the ideal of goodness was. He liked math because it led to a pure abstract truth. -
384 BCE
Aristotle
He was a student of Plato. He believed there was always another way to explain something.He started his own school, called The Lyceum.
