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1 Contributions of Greek Culture to Western Civilization
OBJ: Cite contributions in drama, history, poetry, sculpture, architecture, science, math and philosophy and identify 3 philosophers Copyright © Clara Kim All rights reserved.

2 On your notes sheet, everything is filled in – except for the area of the contribution. Make sure to fill in the area as you go! Ex. -Sophocles and Aeschylus were great play writers of TRAGEDY. -Homer was a great blind story teller of Greece. His stories were written in two epics: a. Iliad b. Odyssey

3 38. Contributions Contributions from: ARCHITECTURE DRAMA HISTORY MATH
PHILOSOPHY POETRY SCIENCE SCULPTURE Aeschylus and Sophocles were great play writers of TRAGEDY. -Comedies were Also performed!

4 Contributions from: ARCHITECTURE HISTORY MATH PHILOSOPHY POETRY
SCIENCE SCULPTURE Homer was a great blind story teller of Greece. His stories were written in two epics: a. Iliad b. Odyssey

5 The Iliad – about the Trojan War

6 THE ODYSSEY – after the Trojan War, it chronicles the long journey home of the Greek Odysseus

7 Contributions in: ARCHITECTURE HISTORY MATH PHILOSOPHY SCIENCE
SCULPTURE - Herodotus was a Greek historian who is known as the “father of history.” He wrote Histories which was about the conflict between Persia and Greece. -Thucydides was a Greek historian who wrote History of the Peloponnesian War. He wrote about the conflict between Athens and Sparta.

8 Contributions in: ARCHITECTURE MATH PHILOSOPHY SCIENCE SCULPTURE
Phidias is known as the greatest Greek Sculptor. He designed the Parthenon (the temple of the Goddess Athena). He also sculpted the huge Statue of Zeus at Olympus.

9 3 columns DORIC - DULL IONIC CORINTHIAN -COMPLICATED

10 Contributions in: ARCHITECTURE MATH PHILOSOPHY SCIENCE
The Doric column is very plain and simple. It has no base. The Ionic column has scrolls. It has a base. It is more decorative than the Doric column. The Corinthian column is the most decorative.

11 Contributions in: MATH PHILOSOPHY SCIENCE
-Archimedes is considered the greatest mathematician of his time. He discovered the principles of density and buoyancy. -Hippocrates is the founder of medicine and the greatest physician of his time.

12 Archimedes Screw

13 Contributions in: MATH PHILOSOPHY
-Pythagoras is the father of numbers, he created the Pythagorean theorem. -Euclid is the father of geometry.

14 - Contributions in: PHILOSOPHY
Socrates was a famous teacher in Athens. He questioned everything. Plato was a student of Socrates. He wrote The Republic. He created a school called the Academy. Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. He created a school called the Lyceum. -


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