Contributions of Greek Culture to

Western Civilization

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Drama

–Aeschylus and Sophocles – Great play writers of TRAGEDY

–Aristophanes – Great play writer of COMEDY

Poetry• Homer: The great

blind story teller of Greece–His stories later were written in two epics:•1. Iliad•2. Odyssey

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

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

architecture

Doric Column

• Very plain and simple

• Has no base

Ionic Column

• Capital has scrolls

• Has a base• More decorative

Corinthian Column

• The most decorative capital

• Roofs are flat

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

mathematics

• Euclid – the father of geometry

• Pythagoras – the father of numbers, he founded the Pythagorean theory

philosophy

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

• Slide 6 – http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/1492640/2/istockphoto_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.JPG• Slide 9 –

http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/2369940/2/istockphoto_2369940_top_of_column_corinthian_style.jpg, http://www.portlandlandmarks.org/images/corinthian_column.jpg

• Slide 11 – Clipart 2006• Slide 12 – Clipart 2006