Contribution of Greek civilization

In my last blog i was talking about greek civilization.Now i am talking about the contributon of Greek civilization on entire world

• The glory of Greece that the world has never forgotten was largely the glory of Athens at the time of Pericles
• The Olympic games were first held in 776 BC by the Greeks in honour of God Zeus at Mouut Olympus in Greece,hence the name and they continued till 394 AD.From 394 Ad these games started degenerating and by 580 Ad they altogether vanished.They were banned by the Roman Emperor theodosius as Pegan manifestation.
• It was the French Baron,Pierre de Coubertin,who revived these games in 1894 and the modern series of Olympic games started in 1896 at Athens and since then they are being held every fourth year.
• Homer's 'illad' and 'Odysesey' are among the best epics of the world.The Illad is the story of seize and destruction of the city of Troy,as the western coast of Asia Minor.The Odyssey describe the adventures and home coming from Troy ,of a Greek hero,Odyssey.
• The founder of Greek tragedy was Aeschylus author of 'promethus Bound'.Sophocles is considered the greatest of Greek tragedians.His famous plays are 'Oedipus Rex','Antigone' and 'electra'.
• Greek produced the some of the world's earliest great historian e.g Herodotus(known as the father of history)
• The most famous philosophers of Greece were Socrates,Plato and Aristotle.Aristotle was both philosopher and scientist.He made important contribution to philosophy,medicine,biology and astronomy.
• The Greek made many contributions to mathematics,especially to geometry as is seen in work of Euclid and Pythagoras.
• In medicine,Hippocrates laid the foundation of modern medicine.He is known as the 'father of medicine'.
• The most important astronomers were: Aristarchus, Ptolemy, Hipparchus,Eratosthenes etc.Ptolemy's belief that the earth was the center of the universe was accepted as truth until the 16th century.Eratosthenes prepared a fairly accurate map of the globe and was the first to suggest that one could reach India from Europe by sailing west.
• The temple of Athens,the parthenon, is the best example of Greek architecture.Myron and Phidias are two best known sculptors of ancient Greece.It was Phidias whom Pericles appointed to supervise the construction of Acropolis in athens