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Slide 2 Unit Five Block Seven Lecture Great Greek Accomplishments Slide 3 Click me Slide 4 History Literature Drama Art Architecture Science Mathematics Click me Slide 5 Greek historians provided an unbiased/neutral account of Hellenic history Herodotus (440 BCE/BC) is the Father of History as he is the first person to actively travel the world and report his accounts (history of the Persian Wars) Thucydides (420 to 411 BC) wrote about the Peloponnesian War Click Here Slide 6 Literature Homer (750 BCE/BC) creates lyrical poems during the Dorian age about Greece The poems are the Iliad (Ten year Battle between Troy and Mycenae) and the Odyssey (Ten year trek home) Homers poems are transcribed between 750 and 700 BCE/BC Drama Tragedies are a form of drama based on human suffering Two famous dramatists are Aeschylus and Sophocles Click Here No not that Homer! Slide 7 Art The primary Greek art form is sculpture that attempts to depict the perfect human Phidias sculpts the goddess Athena (450 to 430 BCE/BC) Architecture Acropolis (built and rebuilt multiple times) Parthenon (built and rebuilt multiple times) Columns Doric (plain), Ionian (moderate), Corinthian (ornate) Click Here Slide 8 Hippocrates (370 BCE/BC): doctor who stated that all disease has natural causes Archimedes (330 BCE/BC): contributed to understanding of fundamental physics Slide 9 Pythagoras (480 BCE/BC): developed the Pythagorean Theorem Euclid (270 BCE/BC): Wrote seminal text on geometry Click Here