During Greece's Golden Age, there were major advancements in drama, mathematics, science, sculpture, history, and philosophy. In drama, Aeschylus wrote the first great tragedies including Oresteia, while Sophocles and Aristophanes wrote plays like Oedipus the King, Antigone, and The Birds. Herodotus and Thucydides were influential early historians who wrote about the Persian Wars and Peloponnesian War respectively. Philosophers like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle made seminal contributions through the Socratic method and works like The Republic. Scientists including Thales, Pythagoras, Hippocrates, and Archimedes made discoveries in

1. People and Contributions of Greece’s Golden Age
Drama
Mathematics
Science
Sculpture
History
Philosophy Socrates Plato Aristotle
ThucydidesHerodotus
ComedyTragedy
Thales
MyronPhidias
Pythagoras
Hippocrates
Aeschylus – 1st
great tragedy writer
-80 plays
- Oresteia = most famous
Sophocles - about 100 plays
Oedipus the King & Antigone
Aristophanes – Wrote 1st
great
comedies and satires
-The Birds
-Lysistrata
1st
Greek historian
“Father of History”
Wrote Historia about Persian
Wars
Wrote History of the Peloponnesian War
•Rejected idea of deities in history
•Followed strict standards for gathering
evidence
•1st
prominent Greek scientist
•Areas of astronomy & math
•Water is basic substance of
everything
•“Father of medicine”
•Believed in natural cause of disease
•Inspired Hippocratic Oath
•Developed Pythagorean theorem
•Taught world was round &
revolves around fixed point
-“Father of Philosophy”
-Encouraged people to
examine beliefs by
questioning
-Socratic Method
-Sentenced to death for
corrupting youth and
neglecting gods
-Pupil of Socrates
-Wrote book on political
science –The Republic
-Importance on state
rather than individual,
philosopher-king should
rule
-Opened school called
The Academy
-Pupil of Plato
-Developed method of
arguing according to rules
of logic – became basis of
Scientific Method
-Opened school called the
Lyceum
-Tutored Alexander the
Great
•Lead construction of Parthenon
•Carved statue of Athena in the
Parthenon
•Great Golden Age sculptor
•Sculpted Discus Thrower
Thales
“Father of Geometry”

2. Aeschylus
1st
great tragedy
writer
- 80 plays
- Oresteia =
most famous
- Is about
family of
Agamemnon
The murder of Agamemnon

3. Sophocles
• about 100
plays
• Oedipus the
King &
Antigone
Antigone

4. Aristophanes
comedy writer
Wrote 1st
great
comedies and
satires
- The Birds
- Lysistrata

5. Herodotus
“Father of History”
1st
Greek historian
Wrote Historia about
Persian Wars
Intro to Historia
Herodotus of Halicarnassus here
displays his enquiry, so that human
achievements may not become
forgotten in time, and great and
marvelous deeds – some displayed by
Greeks, some by barbarians – may not
be without their glory; and especially
to show why the two peoples fought
with each other.

6. Thucydides
Great Greek historian
• Wrote History of the
Peloponnesian War
• Rejected idea of
deities in history
• Followed strict
standards for gathering
evidence

7. Phidias
Golden Age Sculpture
• Lead construction of
Parthenon
• Carved statue of
Athena in the
Parthenon

8. Myron
Golden Age sculptor
• Sculpted Discus Thrower

9. Hippocrates
“Father of Medicine”
• “Father of medicine”
• Believed in natural
cause of disease
• Inspired Hippocratic
Oath
• Opened Hippocratic
school of medicine
• Made medicine a
profession

10. Archimedes
Law of the Lever Compound Pulley

11. Pythagoras
• Developed Pythagorean
theorem
• Taught world was round &
revolves around fixed point
The Pythagorean theorem: The sum of the areas of
the two squares on the legs (a and b) equals the area
of the square on the hypotenuse (c).

12. Euclid
Hellenistic mathematician
Wrote Elements – basis of modern geometry
Elements

13. Socrates
“Father of Philosophy”
- Encouraged people
to examine beliefs
by questioning
- Socratic Method
- Sentenced to death
for corrupting
youth and
neglecting gods
Death of Socrates

14. Plato
- Pupil of Socrates
- Wrote book on political
science –The Republic
- Importance on state
rather than individual,
philosopher-king should
rule
- Opened school called
The Academy
Plato and Aristotle

15. Aristotle
Philosopher
- Pupil of Plato
- Developed method of
arguing according to rules
of logic – became basis of
Scientific Method
- Opened school called the
Lyceum
- Tutored Alexander the
Great