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| Wrote tragedies- over 90 plays including Oresteia |
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| Famous Athenian known for Oedipus Rex. |
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| Author of the Illiad & Odyssey. He was blind. |
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| Known as the “Father of History” because he was the first to separate fact from fiction. Known for his book about the Persian Wars called Historia. |
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| Wrote books about the Peloponnesian War, called The Peloponnesian War. Known as a scientific historian because of his efforts to be impartial and accurate. |
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| Created sculptures of the Parthenon and specifically Athena. |
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| Inventor of the compound pulley, cylinder screw, and lever. Also worked with buoyancy. |
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| “Father of Medicine” because he founded the Hippocratic School of Medicine and realized that diseases are caused by things like poor hygiene and improper diet… not related to mythology. |
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| Organized the information about geometry in Elements of Geometry. |
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| “Everything can be explained in mathematical terms” and developed the Pythagorean Theorem about right triangles. |
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| Sculptor by trade, but developed the Socratic method of teaching—asking questions to students to help them figure things out rather than just telling them. Believes in the absolute truth and was executed for “corrupting the youth of Athens” |
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| Student of Socrates and then opened his own school called The Academy. Wrote The Republic which criticized decomocray for giving too much freedom to the individual. |
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| Studied with Plato and then opened his own school called The Lyceum. Influenced science, philosophy, and government with his work on logic, especially Syllogism. |
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| Leader of gods on Mt. Olympus. Protector and rule of humankind, as well as dispenser of good & evil. |
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| Zeus’s jealous wife. As the Queen of the Heavens, she is the protector of marriage and married women. |
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| Zeus’s son, the god of sunlight, poetry, music, healing, and archery. Has a twin sister named Artemis. |
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| One of Zeus’s daughters and Apollo’s twin sister. The goddess of the hunt, wild animals, the moon, and protector of women in childbirth. |
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| The goddess of love and beauty whose competitive nature is partially responsible for the legendary Trojan War. |
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| Goddess of wisdom, war, and crafts (quite a combo for a goddess who sprang forth from her father, Zeus’s, headache)! |
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| A type of column the Greeks used in many of their buildings, including the Parthenon. The simplest of the 3 column styles. |
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| The “Cinnabon” column found on buildings throughout the Greek Isles and Asia Minor. Has scrolls and minimal designs at the top. |
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| Most elaborate Greek column—so expensive that the wealthy Roman Empire used me more often than the Greeks. |
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