Do it how the greeks do

The Influence of Ancient Greeks on Modern Life

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the society , culture and science of Ancient Greece in today 's world . The era of ancient Greece lasted from about 1000 BCE to about 300 CE . Modern science , medicine mathematics , political science , architecture and philosophy owe a direct debt to the Ancient Greeks

Mathematics was a field of study of utmost importance to the ancient Greeks . One major focus of the ancient Greeks was the study of geometry . Michael Fowler notes that the word geometry ' is

made up of two pieces : geo ' meaning earth ' and metry , meaning measuring (Fowler . Ancient Egyptians inspired the Greeks to take up the study of geometry Herodotus , an early historian , writes : This king moreover (so they said ) divided the country among all the Egyptians by giving them each an equal square parcel of land , and made this the source of his revenue , appointing the payment of a yearly tax . From this , to my thinking , the Greeks learnt the art of measuring land (Fowler

One of the most famous of these discoveries is known as the Pythagorean Theorem , after Pythagoras , the philosopher who related it (Fowler . This theorem , which is stated a2 b2 c2 , describes the relationship of the three sides of a right triangle : the sum of the squares of two sides is equal to the sum of the hypotenuse (Fowler

Another area of mathematics the Ancient Greeks contributed to was the concept of the rational and irrational numbers . The rational numbers are numbers that are ratios of integers (that is , fractions irrational numbers are those that are not expressible as ratios of integers (fractions (Fowler . Irrational numbers such as ( are now a major concept in mathematical fields like geometry , calculus and algebra

Mathematics and the sciences were closely connected in Ancient Greece both were considered branches of philosophy . Natural history is exemplified by the studies of Pliny the Elder , who wrote ten volumes of his work Natural History , which explored everything from geology to botany to biology , and included a classification system similar to the Linnaean system in use today . One unfortunate inheritance of Greek society today is the problem of species extinction . Pliny , writing in 77 CE , discussed the extinction of a plant called silphium , which he described as a remarkably important plant (Parejko , 925 ' The plant fell victim to over harvesting and habitat destruction , and was very rarely seen by Pliny 's time , though there is no consensus as to when it died out completely (Parejko , 925

Ancient Greece was a thriving center of invention in the ancient world Two Greek inventions that stand out are the Archimedes screw , still used today in well drilling , mining and helicopters , and the Antikythera Device , recently discovered and far ahead of its time

The Archimedes screw , invented by Archimedes , a mathematician and inventor of the 2nd century (Dalley , 2 ) is a wide screw-shaped piece of metal , sunk in a tight-fitting shaft to a pool of water . As the screw...