The Ancient Greeks
These were the men and women who laid the foundation for our Western civilization.
Their monuments still recall the most astonishing two centuries of history – the birth of science, philosophy literature and drama.
Their empire saw the creation of art and architecture and with the backdrop of war and conflict they would vanquish armies many times their size. They built an empire and for one brief moment in history they ruled the seas.
They built and lost an empire but left us with:
Democracy
The alphabet
Libraries – the first one being in Alexandria
Mathematics – Pythagoras Theorem, the Archimedes principle
The Hippocratic oath
Trial by jury
Epic poems
They gave us:
democracy, dialect,
epilogues, epigrams,
kaleidoscopes, kleptomaniacs,
palindromes, panaceas,
tragedies and traumas and a host of phobias.
(Source: https://hubl.hu.nl)
Discover the stories behind the myths and see if you can find them in other stories!
These were the men and women who laid the foundation for our Western civilization.
Their monuments still recall the most astonishing two centuries of history – the birth of science, philosophy literature and drama.
Their empire saw the creation of art and architecture and with the backdrop of war and conflict they would vanquish armies many times their size. They built an empire and for one brief moment in history they ruled the seas.
They built and lost an empire but left us with:
Democracy
The alphabet
Libraries – the first one being in Alexandria
Mathematics – Pythagoras Theorem, the Archimedes principle
The Hippocratic oath
Trial by jury
Epic poems
They gave us:
democracy, dialect,
epilogues, epigrams,
kaleidoscopes, kleptomaniacs,
palindromes, panaceas,
tragedies and traumas and a host of phobias.
(Source: https://hubl.hu.nl)
Discover the stories behind the myths and see if you can find them in other stories!