AMS Test 3 Literature: Authors & Works

Callimachus, Aetia

"Begone, baneful race of Jealousy! Hereafter, judge poetry by its art, not by the Persian chain, and do not look to me for a song loudly resounding. It is not mine to thunder; that belongs to Zeus. For when I first placed a tablet on my knees, Lycian Apollo said to me: '... poet, feed your victim to be as fat as possible, but, my friend, keep the Muse slender. This too I bid you: tread a path which carriages do not trample; do not drive your chariot upon the common tracks of others, nor along a wide road, but on unworn paths, though your course be more narrow.'"

Plato's Apology

"Know that if you kill me, I being the sort of man I say I am, you will injure yourselves more than you injure me. Meletus and Anytus will not injure me; that would be impossible, for I believe it is not the gods' will that a better man should be injured by a worse ... If you put me to death, you will not easily find another, who, if I may use a rather ludicrous figure of speech, attaches himself to the city as a gadfly does to a great and noble horse, which is sluggish on account of his very size and needs to be aroused by stinging. I believe that I am the gadfly which god has fastened upon the city in some such capacity, and all day long I go about arousing and persuading and reproaching each one of you, popping up all over. And since you will have difficulty finding another like me, gentlemen, you will take my advice and spare me. Now you might be angry, like someone awakened from a nap, and slap me, as Anytus advises, and easily kill me; then you would pass the remainder of your lives asleep, unless the god, in his care for you, should send someone else to sting you."

Aristotle, On the Parts of Animals

"The craftsmanship of nature provides extraordinary pleasures to those who are able to recognize the causes in things and who have a natural inclination to philosophy."

Aristotle, Politics

"Wisdom of the Multitude": "For the many, who are not as individuals excellent men, nevertheless can, when they have come together, be better than the few best people, not individually but collectively, just as feasts to which many contribute are better than feasts provided at one's personal expense. For being many, each of them can have some part of virtue and practical wisdom, and when they come together, the multitude is just like a single human being, with many feet, hands, and senses, and so too for their character traits and wisdom."

Plato's Republic

Athenian Democracy, Nomos vs. Physis, The Philosopher-King

Aristotle

Contributed to Nicomachean Ethics

Apollonius of Rhodes

Contributed to writing Argonautica

Theocritus,

Contributed to writing Idylls

Euhemerus

Contributed to writing The Sacred Tale