In Plato’s “Crito,” Crito tries, unsuccessfully, to convince Socrates to do which of the following things?
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A.Become the new king of Athens
B.Renounce his philosophy
C.Urge the masses to rise up in revolt
D.Flee from Athens
A.War
B.Love
C.Death
D.Justice
In “The Symposium”, what Greek playwright suggests that all human beings are seeking their missing other halves?
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A.Aristophanes
B.Aeschylus
C.Sophocles
D.Euripides
According to Palto’s “Phaedo”, what was Socrates’ demeanor in his cell, as he awaited his pending execution?
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A.Extremely afraid
B.Angered by the injustice of his sentence
C.Pleasant, calm and resigned to his fate
D.Saddened and depressed
Above the entrance to his Academy was the following quote, ‘let none who has not learned ______ enter here. What goes in the blank’:
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A.Physics
B.Geometry
C.Astronomy
D.Arithmetic
Who said ‘Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment’:
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A.Eratosthenes
B.Plato
C.Diophantus
D.Eppipides
Who said ‘Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many:”
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A.Eratosthenes
B.Plato
C.Diophantus
D.Eppipides
A.Piety, and our duties toward the gods
B.The need to discipline children properly
C.The purpose of art and music
D.How to determine if a war is just
Which Platonic disciple suggested that the Earth turns on its axis every 24 hours and that the solar system might be heliocentric?
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A.Herophilus
B.Heracleides
C.Hero
D.Erasistratus
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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A.Menaechmus
B.Pedanius
C.Asclepiades
D.Alcmaeon
