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Drama –Aeschylus and Sophocles – Great play writers of TRAGEDY –Aristophane s – Great play writer of COMEDY

Poetry Homer: The great blind story teller of Greece –His stories later were written in two epics: 1. Iliad 2. Odyssey

history Herodotus – Greek historian who is known as the “father of history” –He wrote Histories which was about the conflict between Persia and Greece Thucydides – A Greek historian who wrote History of the Peloponnesian War. –He wrote about the conflict between Athens and Sparta

sculpture Phidias – He is known as the Greatest Greek Sculptor –He designed the Parthenon (the temple of the Goddess Athena) –Sculpted the huge Statue of Zeus at Olympus

architecture

Doric Column Very plain and simple Has no base

Ionic Column Capital has scrolls Has a base More decorative

Corinthian Column The most decorative capital Roofs are flat

science Archimedes – Considered the greatest mathematician –Discovered the principles of density and buoyancy Hippocrates – is the founder of medicine and the greatest physician of his time

mathematics Euclid – the father of geometry Pythagoras – the father of numbers, he founded the Pythagorean theory

philosophy

Pictures Cited Slide 1 – Clip art 2006 Slide 2 – Slide 3 – Slide 5 – Slide 6 – o_ _doric_ionic_corinthian_columns.jpg Slide 7 – Slide 8 – Slide 9 – o_ _top_of_column_corinthian_style.jpg, o_ _top_of_column_corinthian_style.jpg Slide 11 – Clipart 2006 Slide 12 – Clipart 2006