Unit 3: Ancient GreeceClassical Era

“They were classical before it was cool.” – Mr. McLaughlin

Socrates

• Philosopher• Marketplace as a classroom• Socratic Method• Criticized for “corrupting the city’s

youth” and “failing to respect the gods”

• Sentenced to death by “forced suicide”

• Final Words:– “Crito, I owe a rooster to Asclepius.

Will you remember to pay the debt?”

Plato

• Student of Socrates• Left Athens for 10 years

after the death of Socrates• Set up a school called “The

Academy” which survived for 900 years

• Rejected Athenian democracy gov’t should provide for the people

Aristotle• Student of Plato• Philosopher,

Mathematician, Scientist

• Writing on “logic” and “figuring out” how the world works