• Greek art emphasized order, balance, and proportion.

• Today art in this form is called classical art.

• Used geometric principles• Parthenon is most famous

Greek Columns:Doric- no base, plain capital

Ionic- base and scrolls on capital

Corinthian- base and fancy capital with leaves

Name that Greek Column!

Don’t forget to raise your hand before naming the “order” of column.

• Phidias is most famous- sculpted the statue of Athena in the Parthenon and many of the reliefs (sculptures carved from walls)

• The Greeks also built the first theaters in Europe and invented drama. • Playwrights like Sophocles and Euripides wrote tragedies – stories of love, war,

or hate in which the main character had a character flaw that led to his downfall.

• Playwrights like Aristophanes also wrote comedies.

Hippocrates- founder of modern medicine. Believed that diseases were caused naturally, not by angering the Gods

Archimedes- inventor, mathematician, physicist, and engineer. Created screw pump to draw water from the ground.

Archimedes Principle:

• Euclid- “Father of Geometry”• Wrote The Elements,

which included proofs used in Geometry textbooks even today

• Pythagoras- Philosopher and mathematician• Pythagorean Theorem

• Herodotus- The Histories, a narrative of the Persian Wars, written several decades after the Persian Wars were over. Father of Modern History

• Thucydides- History of the Peloponnesian War