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