An Infographic on a Notable Ancient Greek

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A very basic infographic. I made it very fast.  Yours will be much better!
A very basic infographic. I made it too fast! The main picture is from an old cigar packet that I found on Wikimedia Commons. I am not entirely happy with my placement of the screw. It looks as though it’s about to bore into the poor man’s head!
Your infographic will be heaps better than mine.As you already know, many people from ancient Greece were remarkably influential, impressively inventive and downright clever.

For instance, there was Euclid, who figured out the rules of geometry and whose textbooks were used in schools until the 19th century.

There was also Homer, who is credited with writing down the legends of Odysseus and the Trojan War and whose stories have intrigued and inspired people ever since.

One of the people who always fascinates me was the poet Sappho, whose work only survives in fragments – yet those fragments are so surpassingly beautiful, so intense and so memorable, that modern people still read her work with wonder.

I could go on, but I want you to discover an ancient Greek thinker for yourselves. Here is your task:

Choose ONE of the great Greek thinkers listed below. Try to read two or three websites and one or two books about that person. The books could include an encyclopedia in the library or a dictionary or encyclopedia of biography.  Once you have found your information, design an attractive and eye-catching page about your famous Greek. Your page should include:

♦a summary of the person’s achievements

♦what you find interesting or admirable about him/her

♦quotations attributed to the person

♦diagrams representing inventions or mathematical principles, etc.

♦an attractive heading

♦a mini bibliography

♦symbols representing the person’s ideas or achievements 

Famous ancient Greeks 1Famous ancient Greeks 2

Recommended Websites

 

Homer: http://greece.mrdonn.org/odyssey.html

Homer again: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/homer.shtml

Archimedes: http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/science/math/archimedes.htm

Archimedes again: http://www.ancientgreece.com/s/People/Archimedes/

One more Archimedes site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/archimedes.shtml

Euclid: http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/science/math/euclid.htm

Aristotle: http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/philosophy/aristotle.htm

Socrates: http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/philosophy/socrates.htm

Eratosthenes: http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/science/math/eratosthenes.htm

Sappho: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/318

Pythagoras: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/pythagoras.shtml

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