paidagogos

Curriculum

Literature

Music

Physical education

Literature

Reading, writing, basic arithmetic

Works of Homer

Music

Use in poetry, developing character

Singing, playing lyre and aulos

Physical education

For wars and games

Mid-5th c. BC Sophists (“experts”) starting toappear in Athens

Demand for training in rhetoric,argumentation, philosophicalreasoning, science

Popularity of rhetoric because ofapplications

Bad reputation

“Socratic method”

399 BC Death of Socrates

Sources on Socrates:

Aristophanes (d. c. 380 BC)

Plato (d. 347 BC)

Xenophon (d. before 350 BC)

Plato (d. 347 BC)

Isocrates (d. 338 BC)

Aristotle (d. 322 BC)

Polymath

Use of empirical observation

Pythagoras (d. c. 500 BC)

Irrational numbers, e.g. √2

Greek medicine

Greek doctors famous as early as6th c. BC

5th-4th c. BC Emergence of two schoolsin Ionia and S. Italy

Hippocratic Corpus ascribed toHippocrates of Cos (d. c. 375 BC)

Greek medicine

Four humours: blood, phlegm, black bile,yellow bile

Treatments incl. blood-letting, drugs, diet,exercise, surgery (rarely)

Asklepios

Greek medicine From the Hippocratic Oath

“I will pay the same respect to my master inScience as to my parents and share my lifewith him and pay all my debts to him. I willregard his sons as my brothers and teachthem the Science, if they desire to learn it,without fee or contract. I will hand onprecepts, lectures and all other learning tomy sons, to those of my master, and tothose pupils duly apprenticed and sworn,and to none other…”