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Which regal hounds, bred to course game across mountainous terrain, used to be premier hunters of leopards?
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- Afghan Hound
Name the Megarian logician, a pupil of Euclides, who is said to have formulated the Lair Paradox?
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- Eubulides
Who claimed, “Nothing exist, even if it exists it cannot be apprehended; even if it apprehended it cannot be communicated to another”?
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- Gorgias
Plato’s dialogue, the Symposium, records a conversation held at the house of which poet?
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- Agathon
In 366 BC, which tyrant of Syracuse did Plato attempt to convert to philosophy?
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- Dionysius
IN 399 BC, who officially accused Socrates when he was charged with impiety?
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- Miletus
Which Athenian colony, founded in 444 BC, was Protagorus, the earliest self-proclaimed Sophist, asked to write a Constitution for?
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- Thurii
Who wrote a work entitled Little World-System?
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- Democritus
Which Greek philosopher statesman a pupil of Parmenides, commanded the Samian fleet which defeated the Athenians under Pericles in 441 BC?
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- Melissus
Who wrote, “How could hair come from what is not hair or flesh from what is not flesh”?
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- Anaxagoras
Which philosopher devised the argument known as the Stadium?
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- Zeno
Which philosopher after Parmenides, wrote his extent works, Purification and On Nature, in hexameter verse?
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- Empedocles
Which ancient thinker was said to have a golden thigh?
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- Pythagoras
who invited Aristotle to Macedon to tutor his son?
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- King Philip II of Macedon
With which philosopher is the river fragment associated?
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- Heraclitus
In which city did Aristotle take refuge following anti-Macedonian reactions in Athens in 323 BC, reportedly saying that he was saving the Athenians from sinning twice against philosophy?
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- Chalcis
Which Greek philosopher, a disciple of Gorgias, co-founded the Cynic school along with his pupil Diogenes?
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- Antisthenes
Name the disciple of Aristotle who wrote a digest on the opinions of the pre-Socratics?
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- Theophrastus
Which city in Ionia did Anaximenes, the philosopher, come from?
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- Miletus
Which Greek philosopher is said to have first made a map of the inhabited world?
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- Anaximander