23. Greek Accomplishments

Father of history; wrote about the Persian Wars.

• Herodotus

• Homer

• Hippocrates

• Euclid

Blind poet who composed The Iliad & The Odyssey.

• Herodotus

• Homer

• Archimedes

• Pythagoras

The Iliad & The Odyssey are epic poems about

• the Trojan War

• the Peloponnesian War

• the Persian Wars

• the Punic Wars

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

• Mycenaeans

• Minoans

• Athenians

• Spartans

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

• Helen of Troy

• Athena

• Aphrodite

• Hera

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

• Hippocrates

• Herodotus

• Homer

• Achilles

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

• Archimedes

• Euclid

• Pythagoras

• Hippocrates

Mathematician; father of geometry.

• Euclid

• Pythagoras

• Archimedes

• Hippocrates

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

• Pythagoras

• Euclid

• Archimedes

• Hippocrates

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

• True

• False