1. Contributions of Greek Culture to Western Civilization
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2. Drama There were plays based on COMEDY
There were plays based on TRAGEDY

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. architecture

7. Doric Column
Very plain and simple
Has no base

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

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

10. science Archimedes – Considered the greatest mathematician
Discovered principles of density and buoyancy
Hippocrates – is the founder of medicine and the greatest physician of his time

11. mathematics Euclid – the father of geometry
Pythagoras – the father of numbers, he founded the Pythagorean theory

12. philosophy

13. Pictures Cited Slide 1 – Clip art 2006