Greek Culture and Contributions Art Greek art emphasized

Greek Culture and Contributions

Art • Greek art emphasized order, balance, and proportion. • Today art in this form is called classical art.

Architecture • Used geometric principles • Parthenon is most famous Greek Columns: Doric- no base, plain capital Ionic- base and scrolls on capital Corinthian- base and fancy capital with leaves

Time for another installment of: Name that Greek Column! Don’t forget to raise your hand before naming the “order” of column.

Sculpture • Phidias is most famous- sculpted the statue of Athena in the Parthenon and many of the reliefs (sculptures carved from walls)

Theater • The Greeks also built the first theaters in Europe and invented drama. • Playwrights like Sophocles and Euripides wrote tragedies – stories of love, war, or hate in which the main character had a character flaw that led to his downfall. • Playwrights like Aristophanes also wrote comedies.

Science Hippocrates- founder of modern medicine. Believed that diseases were caused naturally, not by angering the Gods Archimedes- inventor, mathematician, physicist, and engineer. Created screw pump to draw water from the ground. Archimedes Principle:

Mathematics • Euclid- “Father of Geometry” • Wrote The Elements, which included proofs used in Geometry textbooks even today • Pythagoras- Philosopher and mathematician • Pythagorean Theorem

History • Herodotus- The Histories, a narrative of the Persian Wars, written several decades after the Persian Wars were over. Father of Modern History • Thucydides- History of the Peloponnesian War