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• 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
• 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