Built 447-438 BC Dedicated to the goddess Athena Used as a treasury & temple

Classical Order used in buildings & columns Doric - simple Ionic – use of scrolls Corinthian – ornate & fancy © Students of History

Phidias - greatest of all sculptor Greece His Statue of Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Herodotus – considered the Father of History Wrote about the Persian Wars Thucydides - wrote accurate histories Wrote about the Peloponnesian War

Homer – wrote epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey – the story of the Trojan War & Odysseus’ return

Aeschylus – the “Father of tragedy” Sophocles – used well-developed characters in plays like Oedipus and Antigone

Archimedes - mathematician & inventor (screw, heat ray) “Eureka!” Hippocrates – doctor & namesake of the Hippocratic Oath

Euclid – the “Father of Geometry” Pythagoras – most famous for his Pythagorean theorem about right triangles

Socrates – popular philosopher falsely accused and convicted of corrupting the youth Plato – student of Socrates, argued for a philosopher as king Aristotle - Plato's best student & well-paid tutor of Alexander the Great