Who's who in The School of Athens


Who's who in School of Athens?



  1. Step 1: Search about the character
  2. Step 2: Describe him physically: What's he like? What's he doing?
  3. Step 3: What is he famous for? (use relative, contiditional, passive voice, reported speech)
  4. Write a draft version on your notebook
  5. Write the final version on THIS blog: don't forget to add an image of the character.

     22. Parmenides of Elea (in Ancient Greek Παρμενίδης ὁ Ἐλεάτης) is standing at the bottom of the stairs, on the left. He's got dark hair and beard, wearing a yellow tunic and a bluish and reddish cloak. He's holding a thick book on his hand and leaning it on its knee. He is pointing at a line on the book and seems to be talking to Pithagoras, the bald guy sitting on his right.
     He lived in the 5th century BC in Elea, a Greek colony city on the Southern coast of Italy. He was famous as an ancient Greek philosopher, the founder of the Eleatic school, very theoretical. In his poem, On Nature, which he wrote, he said that there are two views of reality: first, if you look at reality in "the way of truth" (a part of the poem), you can see how reality is one, and change is impossible, so existence is timeless, uniform, necessary, and unchanging. Then, in "the way of opinion," he explains the world of appearances: if you look at reality relying on your sensory faculties they will lead you to conceptions which are false and deceitful.
     His theories are based on ideas and not in physical demonstrations, that is why he is on the left part of the painting, influenced by the god Apolo, who represents the Arts and Beauty. These ideas strongly influenced the whole of Western philosophy, perhaps most notably through their effect on Plato. 

24 comentarios:

  1. Protagoras is wearing a purple tunic. He has brown hair and he is tall and thing.
    He is standing and he is looking at Ptolomeus, Zoroaster and Raphael; if he weren't so shy I had gone to talk to them.
    Protagoras is a Greek sophist, and he is an important character because he is an expert that toured the Greek worl charching very much money for his consciousness about using words.

    By: María Rama 4ºB

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  2. PTOLOMEUS: is wearing a brown and blue tunic. He has white hair, he is stading and is backwards looking and talking to Zorcrasto.
    Ptolomeus is was astrologer and astronomer, activities at that time were closely linked, also a geographer and mathematician. Discloser of astronomical science of antiquity, dedicated to astronomical observations in Alexandria in the time of the emperors Adrian and Antonio Pío.

    By: Melani Pavon 4ºB

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  3. Plotinus (known in ancient Greek as ''Πλωτίνος'')

    Plotinus is standing on the right part. He has got black grey hair, but he is quite bald. He also has got a beard. Plotinus is wearing a red tunic and a red cloack. He is looking to Diogenes who is lying out in the stairs.
    Plotinus is on the top of the stairs, near Homero who is on his right.
    Plotinus lived on the 2nd century AC, he was born in Licopolis, an Egipcian city, now known as Assiut.
    He was an ancient Greek philosopher, autor of the ''Eneadas''. He opened a school of philosofy in Rome. He helped orphan kids, and then he teached them. If he weren't do her famous theory, wich said that there are three absolute reallitys: one, nous, and the soul, maybe, he would not been famous.

    Antonio Jáimez 4ºB

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  4. Raphael Sanzio had dark hair and black eyes, in the table only see his face. He was a painter, he was painting the face of Leonardo da Vinci, Miguel Angel, Donato Bramante and Hipatia. He would be the most important painter in Renaissance if Miguel Angel didn't paint the Sixtine Chapel

    By: Ana Isabel Sola

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  5. Zoroaster is a thin, bearded man and wears a Brown beret on the head, dressed in a gray tunic.In his left hand subject as a kind of ball and is talking to a group in which is Ptolomeus and Raphael. Zoroaster was a Persian Prophet, founder of the mazdaism. I preach a new religion based on the worship.It was a dualistic religion, therefore this God of Justice and truth are you opposed a spirit of the sea.

    Luz Puerto 4B

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  6. My character is called Aristotle.
    Aristotle wears a blue tunic and a dress marron.Tiene brown hair and is tall. Aristotle is standing and in his hand is a tablet and is looking to Plato.Aristotle wrote nearly 200 treaties. Aristotle formulated the theory of spontaneous generation.

    By:Cinthia Cáceres 4ºB.

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  7. My character Athena.
    in Greek mythology, Athena or Athena, also known as Pallas Athena is the goddess of war, civilization, wisdom, strategy, the arts, justice and skill.
    Deidudes was one of the most represented in Greek art and its symbolism exerted a profound influence on the thought of that culture itself.

    BY: Barbara Cuberos 4ºB

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  8. Zeno of Elea (Greek classic: Ζήνων ο Ελεάτης) was a Greek philosopher born in Elea belonging to the Eleatic school (c. 490-430 a. C.). It was a direct disciple of Parmenides and is remembered for the broad conceptual arsenal with which he defended his master's thesis.
    We can only see his head and a long white beard and green cap and is reading a book.
    Is located on the left and stressed by the stands to say that truths no changes

    By: JUANJO PACHECO BAENA 4ºB

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  9. My character Euclid.
    Euclid (in Greek Ευκλείδης, Eukleides) was a mathematician and geometer Greek (ca. 325 - ca. 265 BC). Referred to as "The father of geometry". If he had not studied, these advances have not reached our days. In the box Euclides this Crouching to pick up something.His best known is elements, his theory defendia than the sum of the angles of a triangle were 180 °. These calculations were very important because they were used for the calculation of distances inacesibles.

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  10. HYPATIA:
    She is standing on the stairs, on the right. She has a white tunic and she has a long brown hair.
    Hypatia was a philosopher and teacher neoplatónicagriega, she excelled in Mathematics and Astronomy, member and head of the Platonic School of Alexandria. She is probably the first mathematician woman . She would be more famous if she had been born in our time.
    Hypatia died at an advanced age, 45 or 60 years, lynched by a mob of Christians.

    Cristina Moralo 4B

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  11. Diógenes

    Diogenes has got grey beard and he wearing a blue drees ( tunic )
    He is sitting on stairs the picture. He lived in the sigle IV A.C. Diógenes is the man
    who said to take out your needs. If he hadn' t studied ,we wouldnt had idea of austerity
    in the world.
    To finish he died in 327 A.C

    by: Manuel Férnandez Vidal

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  12. Jenofont (in ancient greek ενοφῶν) 430 – 354 BC), son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens, also known as Xenophon of Athens, was a Greek historian, soldier, mercenary, philosopher and a contemporary and admirer of Socrates. He is known for his writings on the history of his own times, the 4th century BC, preserving the sayings of Socrates, and descriptions of life in ancient Greece and the Persian Empire.
    BY:pablo mesa 4ºB

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  13. Averroes

    Averroes (latinización of the Arabic name Ibn Rushd) is the name for which there knows himself in the western tradition to Abu l-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Rushd (Cordova, Al-Ándalus, 1126 - Marrakech, on December 10, 1198), philosopher and doctor andalusí, mainly of philosophy and Islamic, mathematical laws, astronomy and medicine. In the picture it appears speaking with phitagoras. Ride put a turban and a tunic talks of blue color.

    By: Alejandro Madrid Ortega 4ºB

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  14. Atenas´s school
    Platon was a greek philosopher, teacher of Aristoteles, who founded an academy. His influence how writer , he has been important in the history of philosophy, he was born in Atenas on 427 B.C . He was in the center of the picture, which name is “Escuela de Atenas”.
    He wear a red robe, also, he has a white long hair and he has a beard, and if you look at carefully the picture you will see that , he hasn´t nothing in the feet

    By: Lorena Adamuz Hinojosa 4ºB

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  15. Heráclito de Éfeso

    He was born in 540-480 a.C. He has got long brown hair and he has got a long beard.He is wearing a grey cloak.In the picture Heráclito is Miguel Angel and he has got a brown boots like Miguel Angel because he always wearing boots.Heráclito is the man who is sitting on stairs. He said that Parminedes was wrong.If reality seems uncharged it is not true.He says that reality is a process of changing.Changes are seen by the human being.

    by:Alejandro Campaña Sola

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  16. Anaximander

    Anaximander is sitting on the stairs and is copping of Pithagoras. He is wearing a yellow tunic. He has got a brown hair and he is tall and fat.
    Anaximander was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus (Turkey). He belonged to the Milesian school and learned the teachings of his master Thales. Anaximander was one of the earliest Greek thinkers at the start of the Axial Age.

    Pilar Luque Jáimez 4ºB

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  17. My character is Pithagoras.
    Pithagoras is sitting on the right.
    He has brown hair but he is quite bald and he is wearin a brown and white tunic.
    Pithagoras de Samos ( know an ancient Greek as Πυθαγόρας ) He was an ancient Greek philisopher and mathematical.

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  18. -She is Lili Marleen. She is wearing a blue long garment. She's sitting in a step at the stairs.
    -She was a singer who was famous in the 20th century. She said that her songs would make history. She said that her songs would history. If she had not existed, the song of war wouldn't have existed. She was know by her song and beauty. She was able to join the enemies armies in war with her song.

    http://lisathatcher.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/movie-lili-marleen-poster-mask9.jpg

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  19. Socrat (in Anciente Greek Σωκράτης) is standing at the top of the stairs almost in the middle. He has got light brown hair and beard, and he is a bit bald too. He is wearing a green tunic. He is talking to Jenofonts and moving his hands.
    He was born in Athens between 470 and 469 B.C, and he lived there all his life. He as a famous Greek philosopher who was Plato's teacher. In addition, he was considered a great philosopher.
    In one of his famous quotes Socrat said that one thing only he knew and that was that he knew nothing.
    If Socrat hadn't existed, he wouldn't have taught Plato, and Plato wouldn't have been such a good philosopher.

    By Elena López Martín.

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  20. Aristotle
    As you can see, Aristotle is in the middle of the picture talking to Plato, who was his teacher, and is carrying a book. He´s wearing a blue and brown robe. Aristotle is famous for being the father of Logic and Biology. He said that the real disciple is the one that overcome the teacher. Another proverb that was told by Aristotle is this one, he said that he didn´t say what he thought but he thought everything he said. If he hadn´t existed, the Philosophy and Science wouldn´t be like we know right now.

    Gerardo Arias Martínez 1ºBach B

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  21. John Winston Ono Lennon (1940-1980) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as a founder member of the rock group the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music.
    John had long hair and wore glasses also have a hippie style.
    John said: "Everything is clearer when you're in love".This phrase was one of the most representative of it.
    If john hadn't existed, wouldn't have been possible the formation of the Beatles.

    By:Isabel Portero Gomez 1º Bach C

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  23. Pythagoras was a famous Greek mathematician and philosopher who lived approximately between the years 582 BC and 507 BC.
    He was the one who developed the theorem of Pythagoras on the sides of the triangles.This establishes that the sum of the squares of the sides is equal to the square of the hypotenuse.
    If it had not existed, in the technology they might not be created chips, there would not be known the maximun load that can take an elevator , the slopes in the curves of the highways , in astronomy neither certain things had been known , even in finance , there might not be done calculations of breakevens of market , sectors or companies , etc.
    In general, it was an essential base of all the things that we have nowadays , since to create theories it is necessary to do hypothesis , which was not done before either.


    By : Inma Lachica Garrido 1ºBac-C

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  24. Parménides
    Parménides was an ancient greek philosopher born in Elea. He was founder of the Eleatic school of phylosophy. He´s got dark hair and beard, wearing a yellow tunic and bluish and reddish cloak. He is standing at the bottom of the stairs on the left. Also, he´s holding a thick book on his hand and learning it on it´s knee. He is famous for his poem "On Nature", which has survived only in fragmentary form.
    Parménides held that thought alone can reach truth, putting aside the senses or reasoning that they can generate.

    Guillermo Artacho López 1º Bachiller B

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