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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 09, 1998

Page

13

Ancient Greeks shaped modern science and democracy

The Greeks influenced science art theater math medicine language government architecture sports and literature. Archimedes discovered the lever and pulley Euclid formed geometry Hippocrates linked health to natural causes democracy began in Athens in 508 B C with free men voting while women and slaves had none. the first Olympic Games occurred in 776 B C.

Early Western literature and philosophy highlights

The first Western writers shaped modern poetry drama prose and biography. Homer authored the Iliad and Odyssey, while philosophers Plato and Aristotle laid enduring foundations still studied today.

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