Contributions
of Greek
Culture to
Western
Civilization
Copyright © Clara Kim 2007. All rights reserved.
Drama
–Aeschylus and
Sophocles –
Great play
writers of
TRAGEDY
–Aristophane
s – 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
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
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
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 – Believed that asking questions
led to knowledge and truth. The question
and answer approach known as the Socratic
method comes from his ideas. “The
Unexamined life is not worth living.”
Plato – Founded “The Academy,” his
philosophy was about how societies should
be governed. He wrote about a “perfectlygoverned society” in his work, The Republic.
Aristotle- believed everything in the natural
world could be explained with logic. His
ideas led to the Scientific Method.
• Why do we call them
contributions instead of just
achievements?
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