GREAT GREEKS SCAVENGER HUNT Parthenon Temple for Athena

GREAT GREEKS SCAVENGER HUNT

■ Parthenon Temple for Athena built in Athens – Built on the Acropolis – Phidias helped with construction and planning.

■ Doric 1 st type of Greek column – Considered dull – Parthenon includes this type of column

■ Archimedes mathematician & inventor – Invented the lever & pulley

■ Homer Wrote the epic poems: the Iliad & the Odyssey – Both poems discuss the Trojan War X The Odyssey Not the same guy!!! The Iliad

■ Ionian 2 nd type of Greek column – With two curved “eyes” on each side

■ Sophocles Famous Athenian who wrote tragic plays, including Oedipus Rex

■ Phidias Made the 40 foot tall, gold statue of Athena inside the Parthenon

■ Aeschylus playwright who specialized in Greek tragedies – Wrote “Agamemnon”

■ Hippocrates This person was considered the “father of medicine” & created an oath that all doctors are required to take.

■ Herodotus considered the “father of history” – wrote about the Persian Wars.

■ Plato Student of Socrates & later teacher of Aristotle – said “necessity is the mother of invention” – wrote The Republic.

■ Pericles Ruled during the “Golden Age of Athens” – extended democracy – rebuilt city after the Persian War

■ Corinthian 3 rd type of Greek column – Most classy carved style

■ Socrates philosopher; introduced the “Socratic Method” – Teacher to Plato

■ Euclid Mathematician – Wrote “the Elements” the first textbook to introduce the ideas of geometry

■ Draco Athenian tyrant who wrote a law code – Very harsh laws; most crimes were punishable by death

■ Thucydides historian – wrote about the Peloponnesian Wars

■ Aristotle Student of Plato & later teacher of Alexander the Great – looked at the world in a scientific, logical way

■ Pythagoras Mathematician – Created “Pythagorean theorem” – a²+b²=c²

■ Solon Athenian tyrant who outlawed debt slavery