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1 Built BC Dedicated to the goddess Athena Used as a treasury & temple

2 Classical Order used in buildings & columns
Doric - simple Ionic – use of scrolls Corinthian – ornate & fancy © Students of History

3 Phidias - greatest of all sculptor Greece
His Statue of Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

4 Herodotus – considered the Father of History
Wrote about the Persian Wars Thucydides - wrote accurate histories Wrote about the Peloponnesian War

5 Homer – wrote epic poems
The Iliad and The Odyssey – the story of the Trojan War & Odysseus’ return

6 Aeschylus – the “Father of tragedy”
Sophocles – used well-developed characters in plays like Oedipus and Antigone

7 Archimedes - mathematician & inventor (screw, heat ray)
“Eureka!” Hippocrates – doctor & namesake of the Hippocratic Oath

8 Euclid – the “Father of Geometry”
Pythagoras – most famous for his Pythagorean theorem about right triangles

9 Socrates – popular philosopher falsely accused and convicted of corrupting the youth
Plato – student of Socrates, argued for a philosopher as king Aristotle - Plato's best student & well-paid tutor of Alexander the Great


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