Set: Contributions of the Greeks

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Hippocrates he was one of the first doctors who looked for natural causes than blaming the gods. he wrote the Hippocratic Oath.
Pythagoras a great mathematician who made the Pythagoras Theorem
Euclid He is the father of geometry and wrote a book explaining geometry that was used as a text book till the 1900
Aristarchus He expressed the theory that the earth revolved around the sun.
Herodotus wrote an account about the Persian Wars.
Thucydides wrote an account about the Peloponnesian Wars.
Important philosophers Thales, Homer, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
Well-known writers Sapho who wrote great lyric poems about friendships and love. Aristophanes wrote comedy plays which often made fun of important people or social issues.
Contributions by Herodotus he wrote the first factual account of a past event
Contributions by Thcydides he used sources and documents and interviewed eyewitnesses. He set a new method of sifting through evidence
Literature Achievements Poetry and Drama
Drama people now still do the plays. The greeks plays are tragic and comedy.
Poetry lyric poems and epic poems.

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Creator gostudystudy55
Created May 17, 2007
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