Early Authors and Pre-Socratic Philosophers

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  1. 2. Pre-Socratic philosopher , believed in the transmigration of souls, credited with the theorem that bears his name
  2. 3. Lyric poet with the real name of Teisias, supposedly being struck blind for slandering Helen in one of his poems
  3. 6. Lyric poet, murdered by robbers which was witnessed by the cranes flying overhead, the cranes were then called the "avengers of ___" and the robbers caught
  4. 7. Pre-Socratic philosopher who believed the universe consists of four elements: air, fire, water, and earth
  5. 10. Pre-Socratic philosopher, lived in Miletus, earliest Greek scientist, predicted a sun eclipse, believed the primary substance was water
  6. 12. Author of Theogony, Works and Days
  7. 13. Philosopher from Ephesus, said the primary element of On Nature was fire, known as the "weeping philosopher"
  8. 15. Author of well-known fables
  9. 18. Pre-socratic philosopher from Miletus, said to have constructed the first map of the Earth
  10. 21. Pre-Socratic philosopher from Elea, founded the Eleatic School of Philosophy
  11. 22. Lyric poet from Ceos, nephew of Simonides, wrote odes for victors at games, considered by Aristotle to be a forerunner of tragedy
  12. 24. Poet from Paros, first to use the term iambic for his meter
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  1. 1. Author of the Iliad and Odyssey
  2. 4. Name given my Greek tradition to a group of seven men, statesmen, lawgivers, philosophers
  3. 5. Lyric and elegiac poet from Ceos, uncle of Bacchylides, famous for epigrams, wrote epitaphs (odes)for the Athenian dead at Marathon and Spartan dead at Thermopylae
  4. 8. Poet from Mytilene, conflicted with the tyrant Pittacus
  5. 9. Lyric poet born in Teos, an Ionian Greek city
  6. 11. Author of History of the Persian Wars, arguably the first historian, "Father of History"
  7. 14. Tyrant of Corinth who brought it to the greatest prosperity and promoted the arts
  8. 16. Iambic and elegiac poet from Samos, wrote in Ionic Greek
  9. 17. Lyric poet who lived in Sparta, known for partheneia
  10. 18. Legendary lyric poet, credited with inventing the dithyramb
  11. 19. Known to be the greatest Greek lyric poet, wrote odes to the victors at four great games, Olympian, Pythian, Nemean, Isthmian. His house in Thebes was the only one spared by Alexander the Great
  12. 20. Lyric poetess from Lesbos, wrote love poems, called the "tenth muse"
  13. 23. Pre-socratic philosopher from Miletus, younger contemporary of Anaximander, believed that the primary substance was air
  14. 25. Athenian lawgiver, archon, and poet, known for wisdom, his most important law was the seisachtheia, ending enslavement for debts, went into voluntary exile