1. Built BC
Dedicated to the goddess Athena
Used as a treasury & temple

2. Classical Order used in buildings & columns
Doric - simple
Ionic – use of scrolls
Corinthian – ornate & fancy
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3. Phidias - greatest of all sculptor Greece
His Statue of Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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