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Contributions
of Greek
Culture to
Western
Civilization
Copyright © Clara Kim 2007. All rights reserved.
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
Geography in
Greece
Work with a partner next to
you to complete the reading
assignment.
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
Socrates:
• Absolute standards do exist for truth and justice
- Encouraged Greeks to questions themselves and their moral
characters
- “Socratic Method”
- Condemned to death for “corrupting the youth of Athens” and
“neglecting the city’s gods.”
Plato
- student of Socrates
- The Republic: People should naturally fall into one of 3 groups:
farmers and artisans, warriors, and the ruling class. He who has the
greatest intellect would be chosen philosopher/king
Aristotle
- student of Plato
- method of arguing according to the laws of logic.
- teacher of Alexander the Great.
Pictures Cited
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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/istockphot
o_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/istockphot
o_2369940_top_of_column_corinthian_style.jpg,
http://www.portlandlandmarks.org/images/corinthian_column.jpg
• Slide 11 – Clipart 2006
• Slide 12 – Clipart 2006