Ancient Greek Contributors

Historian: Wrote about Peloponnesian Wars, wrote only truth backed by evidence

• Herodotus

• Homer

• Thucydides

• Strabo

Historian: Wrote about Persian War, known as Father of History, includes gods and bias in story

• Herodotus

• Thucydides

• Homer

• Thatos

Philosopher: described ideal form of government in The Republic, created the academy

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Socrates

• Zeno

Math: Invented this theorem:  $a^2+b^2=c^2$  

• Pythagoras 

• Archimedes 

• Euclid

• Phidias 

Poet: Author of Iliad and Odyssey

• Homer

• Odysseus

• Aesop

• Herodotus

Mathematician & physicist, estimated the value of pi, explained the lever, pulley, & screw

• Archimedes

• Euclid

• Aeschylus

• Hippocrates

Greek writer of tragedies, author of Oedipus Rex, first to have 3 actors

• Sophocles

• Aeschylus

• Homer

• Thucydides

Designed the Parthenon, created statues of Athena and Zeus out of gold & ivory

• Phidias

• Sophocles

• Pericles

• Aristotle

Math: father of geometry, created school in Alexandria, wrote The Elements which is still used

• Euclid

• Pythagoras

• Archimedes

• Sophocles

Science: Father of western medicine, taught disease came from natural causes, created oath

• Hippocrates

• Archimedes

• Hipparchus

• Euclid