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the Greeks and U.S.
Part # 2-Significant Greek people (Philosophers, emperors, inventors, etc.)
Term | Definition |
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Aeschylus | Helped to develop tragedy as a type of play. |
Sophocles | Helped to develop tragedy as a type of play. |
Homer | Wrote the Iliad (about the Trojan War) and the Odyssey. His poems are the source of information for most of what we know about Greek mythology. |
Herodotus | Wrote a history book about the Persian Wars. |
Thucydides | Wrote a history book about the Peloponnesian War. |
Phidias | Designed statues of Zeus and Athena. |
Archimedes | Developed calculus; invented many machines and created mathematical “proofs” for many scientific concepts. |
Hippocrates | “Father of Western medicine”. Created the Hippocratic Oath. |
Euclid | “Invented” geometry. |
Pythagoras | Created the formula: A2+B2=C2 (used to find the area of a right triangle). |
Socrates | “Father of Western philosophy." |
Plato | Opened one of the world’s first universities. |
Aristotle | Wrote about/studied: biology, zoology, logic, history, chemistry, physics, government, etc. His books/ideas influenced scholars for more than a thousand years. Taught Alexander the Great. |
Phillip II | King of Macedonia. Conquered all of Greece. |
Alexander the Great | Son of Phillip II. Conquered a large empire and spread Hellenistic culture around the world. |
Draco | A tyrant who laid the foundations for democracy in Athens. |
Solon | A tyrant who laid the foundations for democracy in Athens. |
Pericles | Elected to lead Athens when it was a democracy. Led Athens during its ‘Golden Age’. Ordered the Parthenon to be built. |