1. Contributions of Greek Culture to Western Civilization

2. Aristophanes – Great play writer of COMEDY
Drama
Aristophanes – Great play writer of COMEDY
Aeschylus and Sophocles – Great play writers of TRAGEDY

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. *Famous Statue leading into Trading City
Colossus of Rhodes
*Famous Statue leading into Trading City

7. architecture

8. Doric Column
Very plain and simple
Has no base

9. Ionic Column
Capital has scrolls
Has a base
More decorative

10. The most decorative capital
Corinthian Column
The most decorative capital
Roofs are flat

11. 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

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

13. philosophy

14. POLITICS (ATHENS) Draco – Introduced 1st code of Laws
Solon – Outlawed “debt slavery” in Athens
Cleisthenes – Introduced the idea of DEMOCRACY