Graduate Seminar I
Theory and Philosophy

Fall 2001

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Department of Art Education and Art Therapy

Instructor: Craig A. Cunningham, Ph.D.

• 546-479 Greek City-States at war with Persians
• 490 Protagoras born (SOPHIST: "Man is the measure of all things.")
• 479 Athens (together with Sparta and other city states) defeats Persians
• 469 Socrates born ("The unexamined life is not worth living.")
• 460 Pericles establishes formal democracy
• 460-431 "Golden Age"
• 435 The Protagoras takes place
• 431-404 Peloponnesian War (between Athens and Sparta)
• 427 Plato born
• 415 Alcibaides (Socrates' student) accused of destroying herma
• 413 Athens defeated in Sicily (due to Alcibaides' treason)
• 404-402 Thirty Tyrants (rule for 18 months by Critias and other exiled oligarchs, some of whom studied with Socrates)
• 403 Restoration of democracy (with amnesty for oligarchs, but not for Socrates, who was labeled their intellectual mentor)
• 399 Trial and Death of Socrates (withaudio clips)
• 390-88 The Protagoras written (?)
• 387-85 The Meno written (?)
• 384 Aristotle born