Values

Logos- “the skill of speaking correctly” or “the skill of argument” logical discourse etc… (words+order) divinely inspired sometimes.

Arete

Public discourse-Very important

education-public speaking/politics

(early-hard manual labor)/farming

Freedom

democracy

paideia-edification on the nature of the divine, the relationships between god and man, etc…

rationalism-Plato searching for truth/contingent every day truths.

isegoria

Figures

(Homer?)-Provided examples of Arete-Achilles

Corax

Tisias

(Plato)

(Socrates)

(Aristotle)

Draco-codified Athenian Law, set limits on aristocracy, provided baseline for democracy.

Pericles-convinced Athens to pay its civil servants, making rhetoric more of a profitable skill

(Sappho? early female greek poet)

(Solon?) Greek ruler who restricted (formally) women’s rights and movements.

Megalostrata-Spartan female poet

Cleitagora-Spartan female poet

Thales-Ionian thinker

Anaximander-Ionian Thinker

Anaximenes-Ionian Thinker

Enheduanna-High Priestess in Ur

Hesiod (pg 12) talked about the value of manual labor

(The sophists)