23. Greek Accomplishments

Front

Father of history; wrote about the Persian Wars.

Back

Herodotus

Front

Blind poet who composed The Iliad & The Odyssey.

Back

Homer

Front

The Iliad & The Odyssey are epic poems about Options: the Trojan War, the Peloponnesian War, the Persian Wars, the Punic Wars

Back

the Trojan War

Front

Bronze Age mainland Greeks that fought the Trojans in the Trojan War.

Back

Mycenaeans

Front

The Trojan War was fought between Achilles and the Greeks versus the Trojans over who?

Back

Helen of Troy

Front

Father of medicine; origin of an oath which says "first, do no harm".

Back

Hippocrates

Front

Mathematician that approximated pi (3.14) and developed the water screw.

Back

Archimedes

Front

Mathematician; father of geometry.

Back

Euclid

Front

Mathematician; developed a theorem which says a2 + b2 = c2.

Back

Pythagoras

Front

The ancient Greeks had many accomplishments in history, art and literature, science, and mathematics.

Back

True