CLST 101 Lecture Notes - Pheidippides, Lentini, Metic

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 101
• Professor: Christina Zaccagnino

Document Summary

Studied great poets and philosophers memorized passages. Children learned at home, or went to school / hired masters if rich. Spelled sophist by the end of the 5th century bce. Sohpists: - protagoras from abdera (flourished 5th century bce), hippias from elis (fl 5th century. Bce), gorgias from leontini (483-375 bc) praise of helen. Word sophist eventually had negative associations because of infamy. Charged with impiety (introduced new gods), corruption of young men. No written work, but we know about him through works of xenophon, plato, aristophanes, Put to death by drinking hemlock (poison) in 399 bce. Called the academy (from the garden of akademos/hekademos) He enrolls his son pheidippides into the school of. Socrates (here called the thinkery), so that he might learn how to defeat the creditors in court. The son learns disrespect for social mores and contempt for authority and beats his father after a domestic argument. *first university in athens 390s by isokrates.