HUM-2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sophist, Peloponnesian League, Lysippos
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Pythagoras: said that universe is made of small particles, pythagorean theorem. Sophists: would say this is how it is with no facts, rhetorical, made money for teaching, socrates didn"t like the sophists, he said you needed a dialect method. Humanism: having the impulse, authority, and ability to do something. Dialectic method: ask questions that have answers, this challenged the government. Psyche: the human soul, mind, or spirit. The republic: idea that men must have an education to rule. Peloponnesian wars: war fought by athens and its empire against the peloponnesian league led by sparta. Tragedy: conflict and death and themes of tragedies. Chorus: provides social commentary, narrates, sometimes tells the audience things that the characters don"t know. Thespis: according to aristotle, he was the first person to ever appear on a stage as an actor playing a character in a play (instead of speaking as themselves) Aeschylus: playwright, won many of the competitions.
