Ancient Greek Inventions

Introduction

The Greeks were the most successful ancient civilization. They were very smart, they had a great army, and they made great structures. They had a great general named Pericles. He destroyed the Persians with his army. He got the best architects to make the famous Parthenon. The Greek gods were Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Ares, Athena, Apollo, and Artemis.

Inventions

The greeks are very smart and made lots of inventions. Some of the inventions are the water mill, odometer, alarm clock, cartography, and the olympics. Those inventions are one that we still use today. And, that's just some of the inventions.

The water mill was used all over the world, people used them for shaping metal, agriculture, and most importantly,

Even though modern odometers are digital, they used to be mechanical. Odometers helped in making roads and travel.
The alarm clock was a timer. How did it work? They used an integrated mechanism to time the alarm, which would make the sound of delicate water organs or the sound of pebbles dropping into drums. The ancient greek philosopher Plato was said to possess a large water clock with an unspecified alarm signal similar to the sound of a water organ; he used it at night time, possibly for signalling the beginning of his lectures at

It is a bronze sculpture that was found in the Sea of Fano on the Adriatic coast of Italy. It was made between 300 and 100 BC and is currently among the collections at the J. Paul Getty Museum in California. Historians believe that this statue was once part of a group of sculptures of victorious athletes in Olympia and Delphi.
The Winged Victory of Samothrace (Nike) was created between 200 and 190 B.C. not to honor the Greek goddess Nike but to honor a sea battle. It was first erected by Macedonian general Demetrius following his naval victory in Cyprus. The Nike was a marble statue, and it is the greatest masterpiece of Hellenistic sculpture. It is currently displayed at the Louvre museum in Paris and is amongst the most celebrated original statues in the world! The Dying Gaul (also called The Dying Galatian or The Dying Gladiator) is an ancient Roman marble copy of a lost Hellenistic sculpture thought to have been executed in bronze. The statue serves both as a reminder of the Celts' defeat, this is demonstrating the might of the people who defeated them, and a memorial to their bravery as worthy adversaries. Some of them have iron breastplates or chainmail while others fight naked in the war of