The World of Pythagoras, Empedocles, and Plato

Homer

 

Hesiod


Mount Olympus


The Victory of the Olympian Gods Over The Titans
(Great Altar of Zeus at Pergamon)


The Olympian Gods

 

 

 

 

 


Oracle of Apollo at Delphi


Cult of Dionysus

 

 

 


Eleusinian Mystery Religion


Pre-Socratics Philosophers

Thales                                                            Anaximander                                                                                                      

Heraclitus                                                                                                                Anaximenes

 

             Zeno                                                        Parmenides

                Democritus

Protagoras                                                                                                        Gorgias


Pythagoras and Empedocles

Pythagoras

 

 

Limited

Odd

One

Right

Male

Immobile

Straight

Light

Good

Square

Unlimited

 Even

Many

Left

Female

Mobile

Curved

Dark

Evil

Rectangular

 

 

 

 

 


Athens

Acropolis

 

Theater of Dionysus

Agora

Parthenon                                                                                                        Temple of Athena

 

Athenian Home                                           

 

Athens in Ruins


Socrates

Busts of Socrates

 

Socrates in Painting and Etching


Plato

Plato

 

Plato with Students at the Academy

 

Ruins of the Academy

 

The School of Athens, by Raphael (Plato and Aristotle are under the central arch, Plato on the left, Aristotle on the right)


Atlantis