Classics 2902 - Test 1 | UPDATED Questions with 100% Verified
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banausic prejudice
Answer:
Prejudice (and the looking down upon of) craftsmen, doctors, and all who had to work
with their hands by elite members of Greek society
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miasma
Answer:
"stain, pollution"
greeks saw this as divine
blood is a good example (greeks saw it as a polluting stain)
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Demigourgoi
Answer:
"men who work for the people" (Craftsmen)
eg. doctors
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Hippocrates
Answer:
"Father of medicine"
- 5th c BCE (born around 460s, died around 375-351 BCE)
- Was mentioned by Plato in 430s
- Born island of Cos; later moved to Thessaly
- Has Asclepiad family connection (relation to healing god)
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iatros
, Answer:
physician
"offer health advice and healing"
No clear/definite definitions of the profession
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Empedocles of Acragas
Answer:
490 to 430 BC; Remembered as the author of the four element theory of matter (earth,
air, fire, and water).
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Democritus of Abdera
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4 60 to 380 BCE formalized the earliest atomic theory
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Alemaeon of Croton
Answer:
(early fifth century BCE) seems to have made some of the earliest anatomical
observations of the optic nerves and of the passages between the nasal and ear cavities
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Anaxagoras of clazomenae
Answer:
fifth century BCE) devised a theory that all things were made up of an infinite number of
kinds of invisible "seeds" in order to explain how food could be transformed into other
things, such as hair and fingernails: the seeds of these kinds of matter were digested and
reconstituted in new forms
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Pneuma
Answer:
the medium that transmitted sensations from the brain to other parts of the body.
Answers
Question:
banausic prejudice
Answer:
Prejudice (and the looking down upon of) craftsmen, doctors, and all who had to work
with their hands by elite members of Greek society
Question:
miasma
Answer:
"stain, pollution"
greeks saw this as divine
blood is a good example (greeks saw it as a polluting stain)
Question:
Demigourgoi
Answer:
"men who work for the people" (Craftsmen)
eg. doctors
Question:
Hippocrates
Answer:
"Father of medicine"
- 5th c BCE (born around 460s, died around 375-351 BCE)
- Was mentioned by Plato in 430s
- Born island of Cos; later moved to Thessaly
- Has Asclepiad family connection (relation to healing god)
Question:
iatros
, Answer:
physician
"offer health advice and healing"
No clear/definite definitions of the profession
Question:
Empedocles of Acragas
Answer:
490 to 430 BC; Remembered as the author of the four element theory of matter (earth,
air, fire, and water).
Question:
Democritus of Abdera
Answer:
4 60 to 380 BCE formalized the earliest atomic theory
Question:
Alemaeon of Croton
Answer:
(early fifth century BCE) seems to have made some of the earliest anatomical
observations of the optic nerves and of the passages between the nasal and ear cavities
Question:
Anaxagoras of clazomenae
Answer:
fifth century BCE) devised a theory that all things were made up of an infinite number of
kinds of invisible "seeds" in order to explain how food could be transformed into other
things, such as hair and fingernails: the seeds of these kinds of matter were digested and
reconstituted in new forms
Question:
Pneuma
Answer:
the medium that transmitted sensations from the brain to other parts of the body.
