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