Question

Match the Greek thinkers with their achievements. Homer Socrates Plato had a controversial theory about literature and the arts that is still applied in literary courses arrowRight wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey, epic poems that enriched Greek culture and mythology arrowRight founded the discipline of Western philosophy and trained some of the world’s greatest philosophers arrowRight

Answer 1

Homer - wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey, epic poems that enriched Greek culture and mythology  : Homer was a Greek writer and poet. Although there are controversies, the epic poems Illiada and Odisseia are attributed to him, as the author of the work. There are also controversies about his real existence, since many scholars believe that he never existed, however, it is known that he is an important figure in Greek poetic production and in the dissemination of Greek culture and concepts.

Socrates  - founded the discipline of Western philosophy and trained some of the world’s greatest philosophers  :  Socrates was an Athenian philosopher credited as the founder of Western philosophy, being quite influential in the concepts created by Plato, Xenophon and Aristoteles, since he was a mentor to both. He was very influential in the field of ethics, epistemology and logic, being very admired and having great followers.

Plato- had a controversial theory about literature and the arts that is still applied in literary courses  : Plato was also a Greek philosopher, very influential in his time. He had the ability to speak in several different fields of society such as ethics, philosophy, politics, arts, literature, militarism, among others. His concepts, even the most controversial ones, are still studied today in all fields in which he worked and studied.