Greek Contributions

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Blind poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.

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Homer

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Created a mathematical theorem.

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Pythagoras

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Greek "Father of the Study of Medicine".

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Hippocrates

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Ruled Athens during its Golden Age; extended democracy.

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Pericles

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Greek philosopher who believed everything could be studied logically and was Plato's student.

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Aristotle

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"Father of Geometry"

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Euclid

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Sculpted a statue of Athena; designed the Parthenon.

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Phidias

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Wrote "The History of the Peloponnesian War".

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Thucydides

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Who calculated the value of pi = 3.14, developed the pulley and lever?

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Archimedes

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Wrote tragedies such as Agamemnon.

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Aeschylus