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GREEK ACHIEVEMENTS - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The paints are admired for its realism and detail, painting scenes on vases, pots, and other vessels; often shows scenes from myths or athletic competitions, and using two colors, blalck and red; others covered whole vases with glaze and then scraped parts away to let the red background show through.
  - - - Some writers produced tragedies, which described the hardships faced by greek heroes. Among the berst tragedy writers were Aeschylus and Sophocles.
        
        Sophocles wrote about a Greek hero who mistakenly killed his own father.
        
        Others focused on comedies, which made fun of people and ideas; one famous was Aristopanes. He used his comedy to make serious pooints about war, courts of law and famose people.
        
        The Greeks were the first people to write about history, the greatest was Thucydides
        
        Thucydides wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War, he tried to be neutral in his writing and tried to figure out what had caused it, hoping that Greeks could learn froem their mistakes.
  - - - They wanted their buildings to reflect the greatness of their cities. The most impressive of all was the Parthenon in Athena, and was built on the Athenian acropolis; the interior was decorated with carvings and columns.
- - - - Also made great advances in the field of logic, the process of making inferences. He argued that you could use facts you knew to figure out new facts.
- - - - Hypatia was a woman that taught about mathematics and astronomy.
  - - - Hippocrates wanted to figure out what caused diseases so he could better treat them; he is better known today, though, for is ideas about how doctors should behave.