1. W.T. Jones Thales, PP. 8-10 (Handout) (4 pp.)
    1. Jones claims that successive generations of poets (like Homer and Hesiod) kept alive mythological cosmogonies, and thus inhibited the advancement of what? Explain.
    2. According to Jones, prior to Thales, the causes of events in the natural world were always attributed to what? 
    3. What important “dual and reciprocal” process does Jones mention? Explain.
    4. According to Jones, why is Thales’s name remembered? Explain.
    5. According to Jones, how can the work of Thales’ immediate successors best be understood?
    6. According to Jones, what was Thales’ first assumption?
    7. According to Jones, what was Thales’ second assumption?
    8. According to Jones, what was Thales’ third assumption?
  2. ARISTOTLE on THALES All Things Full of Gods. – pages 553-554-Richard McKeon ed. Modern Library 2001 (Handout)
    1. According to Aristotle, for what reason did Thales say that “all things are full of gods”?
  3. W.T. Jones Plato: Life and Times, PP. 108-109 (textbook) (3 pp.)
    1. According to Jones, what did Plato think was the reason that Athens was defeated?
    2. According to Jones, who were The Thirty?
    3. According to Jones, what two forms of government was Plato dissatisfied with? Why?
    4. According to Jones, what made the biggest impression on Plato?
    5. According to Jones, how old was Plato when Socrates was forty?
  4. W.T. Jones Alcibiades Treason, PP. 109-112 (textbook) (4 pp.)
    1. According to Jones, was Socrates a mystic? Explain.
    2. What kind of setting does Plato’s dialogue the Symposium describe?
    3. Who was Alcibiades at the beginning of the Symposium? Explain.
    4. What or who did Alcibiades talk about at the beginning of the Symposium? Explain.
    5. List all of the things that Alcibiades says about Socrates.
    6. What was Socrates arguing with Agathon and Aristophanes about? Explain.