Greek Achievements

Art & Architecture

• Sculptors used large statues to show the ideal beauty of the human form

• Buildings like the famous Parthenon have influenced modern architecture

Literature

• Lyric poetry – poetic songs performed by a group called a chorus

• Greek drama influenced modern theater.

Philosophy and History

• Socrates encouraged people to use reason and logic – a step by step method of thinking through a problem or question

• Thucydides was the first historian who wrote about the wars in Greece by visiting the battles sites and interviewing people.

Science and Medicine

• Aristotle collected and analyzed data about plants, animals, and rocks

• Pythagorean theorem used in Geometry is named after Greek mathematician Pythagoras