Some Cultural Contributions of Ancient Greece Mr Koch

Some Cultural Contributions of Ancient Greece Mr. Koch World History A Forest Lake High School

Cultural Contributions • Alphabet/Literature – Basis for our alphabet – Stories still used today – Wrote histories

Cultural Contributions • Art/Architecture – Standards for Western civilization – Realistic art

Cultural Contributions

Cultural Contributions • Democracy – Direct democracy in Athens • Basis of our govt.

Cultural Contributions • Drama – Religious festivals to Dionysus – Still performed today • Comedies & Tragedies – Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes Aeschylus Sophocles

Cultural Contributions • Medicine – Hippocrates • Illness due to natural causes, not evil spirits

Cultural Contributions • Mythology – Religion has become basis for our literature

Cultural Contributions • Philosophy – Observation & Reason (basis for modern science) – 1 st to emphasize teaching thought Socrates • Socrates – questions • Plato – writings – govt. • Aristotle - logic Plato Aristotle

Cultural Contributions • Science/Math – Archimedes, Pythagoras • Responsible for many theories/formulas – geometry

Cultural Contributions • Sports/Olympics – 1 st to train for sports • Were religious festivals