1. Contributions of Greek Culture to Western Civilization
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2. Aristophanes – Great play writer of COMEDY
Drama
Aeschylus and Sophocles – Great play writers of TRAGEDY
Aristophanes – Great play writer of COMEDY

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. 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

7. Mathematics Euclid – the father of geometry
Pythagoras – the father of numbers, he founded the Pythagorean theory

8. architecture

9. Doric Column
Very plain and simple
Has no base

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

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

12. Philosophy

13. Socrates – Believed that asking questions
led to knowledge and truth. The question
and answer approach known as the Socratic
method comes from his ideas. “The
Unexamined life is not worth living.”
Plato – Founded “The Academy,” his
philosophy was about how societies should
be governed. He wrote about a “perfectly-
governed society” in his work, The Republic.
Aristotle- believed everything in the natural
world could be explained with logic. His
ideas led to the Scientific Method.
Political
Thinker
Scientific
Thinker

14. Pictures Cited Slide 1 – Clip art 2006