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Contributions of Greek Culture to Western Civilization Copyright © Clara Kim 2007. All rights reserved.
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Drama –Aeschylus and Sophocles – Great play writers of TRAGEDY –Aristophane s – Great play writer of COMEDY
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Poetry Homer: The great blind story teller of Greece –His stories later were written in two epics: 1. Iliad 2. Odyssey
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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
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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
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architecture
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Doric Column Very plain and simple Has no base
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Ionic Column Capital has scrolls Has a base More decorative
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Corinthian Column The most decorative capital Roofs are flat
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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
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mathematics Euclid – the father of geometry Pythagoras – the father of numbers, he founded the Pythagorean theory
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philosophy
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Pictures Cited Slide 1 – Clip art 2006 Slide 2 – http://www.actingmonologues.org/drama1.jpg Slide 3 – http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0226469409.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Slide 5 – http://www.sikyon.com/Athens/Monuments/athena_nike.jpg, http://www.crystalinks.com/zeusgoldstatue.jpg http://www.sikyon.com/Athens/Monuments/athena_nike.jpg Slide 6 – http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/1492640/2/istockphot o_1492640_doric_ionic_corinthian_columns.jpg Slide 7 – http://www.portlandlandmarks.org/images/doric_column.jpg Slide 8 – http://www.royalarchmasons.on.ca/images/Arch_S2.jpg, http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/820/20211172.JPGhttp://www.royalarchmasons.on.ca/images/Arch_S2.jpg Slide 9 – http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/2369940/2/istockphot o_2369940_top_of_column_corinthian_style.jpg, http://www.portlandlandmarks.org/images/corinthian_column.jpg http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/2369940/2/istockphot o_2369940_top_of_column_corinthian_style.jpg Slide 11 – Clipart 2006 Slide 12 – Clipart 2006
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