2. Unit Five Block Seven Lecture Great Greek Accomplishments

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4.  History  Literature  Drama  Art  Architecture  Science  Mathematics Click me

5.  Greek historians provided an unbiased/neutral account of Hellenic history  Herodotus (440 BCE/BC) is the “Father of History” as he is the first person to actively travel the world and report his accounts (history of the Persian Wars)  Thucydides (420 to 411 BC) wrote about the Peloponnesian War Click Here

6.  Literature ◦ Homer (750 BCE/BC) creates lyrical poems during the Dorian age about Greece ◦ The poems are the Iliad (Ten year Battle between Troy and Mycenae) and the Odyssey (Ten year trek home) ◦ Homer’s poems are transcribed between 750 and 700 BCE/BC  Drama ◦ Tragedies are a form of drama based on human suffering ◦ Two famous dramatists are Aeschylus and Sophocles Click Here No not that Homer!

7.  Art ◦ The primary Greek art form is sculpture that attempts to depict the perfect human ◦ Phidias sculpts the goddess Athena (450 to 430 BCE/BC)  Architecture ◦ Acropolis (built and rebuilt multiple times) ◦ Parthenon (built and rebuilt multiple times) ◦ Columns  Doric (plain),  Ionian (moderate),  Corinthian (ornate) Click Here

8.  Hippocrates (370 BCE/BC): doctor who stated that all disease has natural causes  Archimedes (330 BCE/BC): contributed to understanding of fundamental physics

9.  Pythagoras (480 BCE/BC): developed the Pythagorean Theorem  Euclid (270 BCE/BC): Wrote seminal text on geometry Click Here