A. Dialogues
B. Apology
C. Both (a) & (b)
D. None of these
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Another individual from the Platonic school, he initiated the study of conic sections – the hyperbola, the parabola and the ellipse. Who was he?
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Which Platonic disciple suggested that the Earth turns on its axis every 24 hours and that the solar system might be heliocentric?
A. Menaechmus
B. Pedanius
C. Asclepiades
D. Alcmaeon
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Aside from developing the system of concentric spheres upon which the epicyclic Ptolemaic arrangement of the solar system was based, what other remarkable achievement was made by this great follower of Plato?
A. Herophilus
B. Heracleides
C. Hero
D. Erasistratus
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_______ is one of the ‘big three’ in ancient Greek philosopher, along with Aristotle and Socrates:
A. He first suggested that the solar system was sun-centered
B. He read all of Aristotle’s work straight through without falling asleep
C. He estimated the diameter and the circumference of the Earth accurately to within 1 mile
D. He estimated the solar year to be 365 days and six hours long
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A pupil of Plato’s great student, who developed the system of concentric spheres borrowed by Ptolemy, was this man who advanced the system of epicycles, adding an additional seven, laying the final groundwork for the system adopted by Aristotle and Ptolemy Who was he?
A. Eratosthenes
B. Plato
C. Diophantus
D. Eppipides
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________ argues that the wrong types of literature and music can corrupt the youth of Greece, and must therefore be strictly controlled:
A. Eratosthenes
B. Callipus
C. Diophantus
D. Eppipides
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In Plato’s ‘The Republic”, who does Socrates suggest should rule over society?
A. Xenophon
B. Aristotle
C. Socrates
D. None of these
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Plato died at the age of:__________?
A. The military
B. Nobody; no man should rule over any other man
C. An elected parliament
D. An elite group of ‘philosopherkings”