Unit Five Block Seven Lecture Great Greek Accomplishments
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Greek historians provided an unbiased/neutral account of Hellenic history Herodotus (440 BCE/BC) is the “Father of History” as he is the first person to actively travel the world and report his accounts (history of the Persian Wars) Thucydides (420 to 411 BC) wrote about the Peloponnesian War Click Here
Literature ◦ Homer (750 BCE/BC) creates lyrical poems during the Dorian age about Greece ◦ The poems are the Iliad (Ten year Battle between Troy and Mycenae) and the Odyssey (Ten year trek home) ◦ Homer’s poems are transcribed between 750 and 700 BCE/BC Drama ◦ Tragedies are a form of drama based on human suffering ◦ Two famous dramatists are Aeschylus and Sophocles Click Here No not that Homer!
Art ◦ The primary Greek art form is sculpture that attempts to depict the perfect human ◦ Phidias sculpts the goddess Athena (450 to 430 BCE/BC) Architecture ◦ Acropolis (built and rebuilt multiple times) ◦ Parthenon (built and rebuilt multiple times) ◦ Columns Doric (plain), Ionian (moderate), Corinthian (ornate) Click Here
Hippocrates (370 BCE/BC): doctor who stated that all disease has natural causes Archimedes (330 BCE/BC): contributed to understanding of fundamental physics
Pythagoras (480 BCE/BC): developed the Pythagorean Theorem Euclid (270 BCE/BC): Wrote seminal text on geometry Click Here