1. Some Cultural Contributions of Ancient Greece
Mr. Koch
World History A
Forest Lake High School

2. Cultural Contributions
Alphabet/Literature
Basis for our alphabet
Stories still used today
Wrote histories

3. Cultural Contributions
Art/Architecture
Standards for Western civilization
Realistic art

4. Cultural Contributions

5. Cultural Contributions
Democracy
Direct democracy in Athens
Basis of our govt.

6. Cultural Contributions
Drama
Religious festivals to Dionysus
Still performed today
Comedies & Tragedies
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes
Sophocles
Aeschylus

7. Cultural Contributions
Medicine
Hippocrates
Illness due to natural causes, not evil spirits

8. Cultural Contributions
Mythology
Religion has become basis for our literature

9. Cultural Contributions
Philosophy
Observation & Reason (basis for modern science)
1st to emphasize teaching thought
Socrates – questions
Plato – writings – govt.
Aristotle - logic
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle

10. Cultural Contributions
Science/Math
Archimedes, Pythagoras
Responsible for many theories/formulas – geometry

11. Cultural Contributions
Sports/Olympics
1st to train for sports
Were religious festivals