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Drama

Drama

Drama

Sophocles – He was a playwright that wrote over 100 plays over his
lifetime

Aeschylus – He was a playwright that was often considered to be the
father of tragedy

Poetry

Homer – He was a poet in Ancient Greece that wrote many famous
poems. These poems included “Odyssey” and “Iliad”

History

Herodotus - He was the first historian known to have broken from
Homeric tradition to treat historical subjects as a method of
investigation

Thucydides – Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific
history" because of his strict standards of evidence-gathering and
analysis of cause and effect without reference to intervention by the
gods

Sculpture

Phidias – He was a Greek sculptor, painter, and architect. His statue of
Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Phidias also designed the statues of the goddess Athena on the
Athenian Acropolis.

Architecture

Doric – The simplest type of column in Ancient Greece
Ionic – The thinnest and smallest column of all
Corinthian – The most elegant column of them all

Science

Archimedes – He is considered to be the greatest mathematician of
antiquity and one of the greatest of all time

Hippocrates – He is considered one of the most outstanding figures in
the history of medicine

Mathematics

Euclid – He was a Greek mathematician that was often considered to be
the father of geometry

Pythagoras – He was a Greek mathematician and the founder of the
movement called Pythagoreanism

Philosophy

Socrates – He is credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy
Plato – A philosopher on Classical Greece and the founder in Athens
Aristotle – A Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira,
Chalkidice


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