1. What did the Ionian Cosmologists achieve?
2. How did Pythagoras, Parmenides, and Democritus contribute to the development of science?
3. How did the Sophists advance the tradition of reason initiated by the Cosmologists? How did they contribute to a spiritual crisis in Athens?
4. What was Socrates' answer to the problems proposed by the Sophists?
5. What value does the Socratic dialogue have for education?
6. How did Plato make use of Socrates' thought? What is Plato's theory of Ideas or Forms?
7. What are the essential features of Plato's Republic, and what led him to write it?
8. What did Aristotle accept and reject from Plato's theory of Ideas? What do Aristotle's political and ethical thought have in common?
9. Aristotle wrote, "Men should not think it slavery to live according to the rule of the constitution, for it is their salvation." What central elements of Aristotle's thought does this statement articulate?
10. In what ways was Greek art at once realistic, idealistic, and humanistic?
11. What did the Greek dramatists have in common with Socrates?
12. In what ways did the Greek dramatists explore the inner life of the individual? Support your answer with examples from the major dramatists.
13. Why do Greek plays have perennial appeal?
14. Why is Herodotus called the "father of history"? In what ways did Thucydides surpass Herodotus as a historian? What does Thucydides offer modern readers?
15. How did the Greeks break with the mythopoeic outlook of the ancient Near East and thus lay the foundation of Western civilization?