Ancient Greece - Contributors

Who sculpted the statues of Athena at the Parthenon and Zeus at Olympia?

• Pythagoras
• Aristotle
• Phidias
• Plato

Who wrote the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey"? 

• Plato
• Homer
• Euclid
• Socrates

Who was known as the "Father of History"? 

• Herodotus
• Thucydides
• Homer
• Sophocles

Which dramatists wrote Greek tragedies like "Antigone"? 

• Euripides and Aeschylus
• Aristophanes and Sophocles
• Homer and Aeschylus
• Socrates and Homer

Which historian was famous for writing the history of the Peloponnesian War? 

• Thucydides
• Aristotle
• Euclid
• Homer

Who was the father of medical science? 

• Phidias
• Socrates
• Hippocrates
• Archimedes

Who was a philosopher who taught through asking questions?
*He is sometimes referred to as the "Father of Philosophy"

• Aristotle
• Socrates
• Pythagoras
• Plato

Which mathematician wrote a theorem about right triangles?

• Hippocrates
• Euclid
• Pythagoras
• Plato

 Which philosopher wrote "The Republic"? 

• Plato
• Homer
• Aristotle 
• Archimedes

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Which dramatists wrote Greek comedies, like "Oresteia"?

• Aeschylus and Euripides
• Aristophanes and Sophocles
• Sophocles and Pythagoras
• Euclid and Euripides