· The glory of Greece that the world has never forgotten was largely y the glory of Athens at the time of Pericles.
· The Olympic Games were first held in 776 BC by the Greeks in honor of god Zeus at mouth Olympus (Olympia) in Greece, hence the name and they continued till 394 AD these games started degenerating and by 580 AD they altogether vanished. They were bannedbhy the roman emperor Theodosius as pagan manifestations.
· Homer’s lead’ and ‘Odyssey’ are among the best epics of the world. The lilac is the story of seize and destruction of the city of troy, as the western coast of Asia minor. The odyssey describes the adventures and home coming, from troy, of a Greek hero, odysseys.
· The founder of Greek tragedy was Aeschylus, author of ‘promethium bound’. Sophocles is considered the greatest of Greek tragedienne. His famous plays are ‘Oedipus red’, ‘antigens’ nod ‘Electra’. Aristophanes is considered the master of Greek comedy.
· Green produced some of the world’s earliest great historians e.g. Herodotus (known as ‘the father of history’) Thucydides, Plutarch.
· The most famous philosophers of Greece were Socrates, Plato (disciple of Socrates and author of ‘republic’). And Aristotle (disciple of Plato), Aristotle was both philosopher and scientist. He made important contribution to philosophy, medicine, biology and astronomy. He believed in the principle of the golden mean, that is, neither extreme luxury nor self-denial.
· The Greek made many contributions to mathematics, especially to geometry as is seen in the work of Euclid and Pythagoras.
· In medicine, Hippocrates laid the foundation of modern medicine. He is the known as the ‘father of medicine.
· The most important astronomers were: Aristarchus, Ptolemy, Hipparchus, Eratosthenes etc. Ptolemy’s belief that the earth was the centre of the universe was accepted as truth unit ill the 16th century. Eratosthenes prepared a fairly accurate map of the globe and was the first to suggest that once could reachindia from Europe by sailing west.
· The temple of Athena, the Parthenon, is the best example of Greek architecture. My remand Phidias is two best-known sculptors of ancient Greece. It was Phidias whom Pericles appointed to supervise the construction of the acropolis in Athens.