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Hippocrates Influence On Ancient Greek Civilization

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One of the most popular healers in the ancient civilization is Hippocrates. His beliefs and practices are still being used until today like his belief that diseases arise from things which enter and leave the body. He also believed that cleanliness and rest are important for a sick or wounded patient. Hippocrates also manifested the characteristics of a scientist when he resisted the temptation to theorize without a basis from carefully observed facts and the temptation to give supernatural causes into medicine. In the mathematical aspect, the ancient people were not left behind. They discovered different things in Mathematics to solve some problems in their daily living. In the Egyptian civilization, they developed the science of geometry …show more content…

One of which is the war between the Achaeans, Ionians, and Dorians which brought the dark age of the Greeks. During this age, the art of writing was lost and the level of artistic and cultural achievement deteriorated. There was also a time when ancient people killed their leader if their wishes were not granted just like what happened to Orpheus when he decided to give up sex forever. Lastly, during the ancient Greek civilization, the craftsmen and metallurgists of ancient Greece were only slaves while the philosophers were gentlemen who refuses to get their hands dirty. This can be one of the causes why there was a slow development during the ancient Greek …show more content…

Most of them are students of the famous philosophers. Take for example, Anaximander who is a student of Thales. He was the one who imported the sundial from Egypt. There is also Anaximenes who is a student of Anaximander who distinguished the planets and the stars. Pythagoras is also a student of Anaximander who became a leader and reformer of the Orphic religion. He has made a lot of contribution in the field of mathematics. He also inspired the idealistic philosophy of Plato and his ideas about the spheres carrying the planets was developed by Hipparchus and Ptolemy. Socrates, who proved that there is an absolute beauty and absolute justice inspired Plato who made Socrates’ memory alive by writing dialogues wherein he appeared as the

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