Name:________________
Period: _______
Contributions of Greek Culture
to Western Civilization
Drama
Poetry
_________
__________
* _________: The
and
– great play
great blind ________
______ –
writer of
teller of Greece
_________
•His stories later
Great play
were ________ in
writers of
______
two ______:
1.Iliad
History
* Herodotus – Greek ________ who
is known as the “_________
___ __________”
–
* ____________ – A Greek historian
who wrote __________ of the
___________________ War.
–
2. __________
Sculpture
* _________ – He is known
as the _________
Greek ____________
– He designed the
____________
(the temple of
the Goddess
__________)
– Sculpted the
huge Statue of
Zeus at
Olympus
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Science
•
Archimedes – Considered the
Discovered the
principles of _________
and ___________
•
__________ – is the founder
of ____________ and the
greatest physician of his time
He wrote about the conflict
between ________ and ______
Mathematics
•
greatest _____________
–
He wrote ___________ which
was about the conflict between
__________ and __________
Euclid – the father of
_____________
•
Pythagoras – the father of
____________, he founded
the Pythagorean theory
Architecture – 3 Types of Greek Columns
• Very _______ and _______
• Has no _______
• Capital has _______
• Has a base
• More _______
• The _______ decorative capital
• _______ are flat
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The great philosophers of Greece
Directions: Read pages 124-125. Only the section “Philosophers Search for Truth”
• Unlike Sophists, what did he believe?
• What did he encourage Greeks to do?
• Why was he taken to court?
• How did he die?
• He was the student of _____________.
• Plato wrote his most __________ work, The _____________. In it he
put his vision of a ______________ governed ___________.
* in his ideal society all citizens fell into 3 groups:
1.
2.
3.
• What did he question?
• What did he invent?
•His work gives the basis of _____________ _________ used today.
•Who was his famous pupil?
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