Ancient Greece

By: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley H.S. Chappaqua, NY The Geography of Greece Bronze Age Greece Crete: Minoan Civilization (Palace at Knossos) Knossos: Minoan Civilization Minoan Civilization The Mycenaean Civilization Homer: The “Heroic Age” The Mask of Agamemnon ATHENS: Yesterday & Today Piraeus: Athens’ Port City Early Athenian Lawgivers $ Draco  “draconian” $ Solon $ Cleisthenes  created the first democracy! Persian Wars: 499 BCE – 480 BCE Persian Wars: $ Famous Battles Marathon (490 BCE)  26 miles from Athens $ Thermopylae (480 BCE)  300 Spartans at the Mountain pass Golden “Age of Pericles”: 460 BCE – 429 BCE $ Great Athenian Socrates Philosophers  Know thyself!  question everything  only the pursuit of goodness brings happiness. $ Plato  The Academy  The world of the FORMS  The Republic  philosopher- $ Great Athenian Philosophers Aristotle  The Lyceum  “Golden Mean” [everything in moderation].  Logic.  Scientific method. Athens: The Arts & $ DRAMA (tragedians): Sciences    Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides $ THE SCIENCES:   Pythagoras Democritus  all matter made up of small atoms. Phidias’ Acropolis The Acropolis Today The Parthenon The Agora The Classical Greek “Ideal” Olympia The Ancient Olympics: Athletes & Trainers Olympia: Temple to Hera The 2004 Olympics SPARTA SPARTA Helots  Messenians enslaved by the Peloponnesian Wars Macedonia Under Philip II Alexander the Great Alexander the Great’s Empire Alexander the Great in Persia The Hellenization of Asia Pergamum: A Hellenistic City The Economy of the Hellenistic World $ Hellenistic Cynics  Diogenes Philosophers  ignore social conventions & avoid luxuries.  citizens of the world.  live a humble, simple life. $ Epicurians  Epicurus  avoid pain & seek pleasure. $ Hellenistic Philosophers Stoics  Zeno  nature is the expansion of divine will.  concept of natural law.  get involved in politics, not for personal gain, but to perform virtuous acts for the good of all.  true happiness is found in great achievements. Hellenism: The Arts & Sciences $ Scientists / Mathematicians:  Aristarchus  heliocentric theory.  Euclid  geometry  Archimedes  pulley $ Hellenistic Art:  More realistic; less ideal than Hellenic art. The Breakup of Alexander’s Empire