Contributions of Greek Culture to Western Civilization

Contributions
of Greek
Culture to
Western
Civilization

Drama

Aeschylus-An ancient Greek
playwright, known as the father
of tragedy.

Sophocles- Also a playwright,
with some of his work still
stands today. For ex: Ajax,
Antigone, Electra, Philoctetes,
and Oedipus at Colonus.

Poetry

Homer-Iliad and
Odyssey

History

Herodotus- A know
Greek historian, he was
first to collect and

arrange information
systematically.

Thucydides- Another
Greek historian, as well
as the author of the
History of the
Peloponnesian War.

Sculpture
Phidias

Architecture
Columns

 Doric{Parthenon}
 Ionic
 Corinthian

Science
Archimedes
Hippocrates

Mathematics
Pythagoras
Euclid

Philosophy
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle