ΜΕΡΥ ΜΠΑΑΜ

It’s Greek to Me

Click on the link above to see your name in Greek.

It’s Greek to Me

“It’s Greek to me” is a phrase claiming that an expression can not be understood, either because it is complex or an error. http://www.ubuntux.org/black-screen-during-installation-please-

help-me

What does this mean?

It’s Greek to Me

It may be used with respect to expressions with a lot of jargon, or language of the disciplines of math, or science.

http://www.stuffintheair.com/mathematical-precitions-of-weather.html

It’s Greek to Me

It makes reference to the Greek language and the Greek alphabet.

http://www.selu.edu/admin/greeklife/its_all_greek_to_me/index.html

Why do you think that is?

Greek: Parthenon

Greek or Roman, Which Came First?

Roman: Coliseum

http://newmexicoindependent.com/24755/roman-coliseum-to-be-lit-in-honor-of-new-mexico

http://www.powerplaces.org/emailpromo/crete_2006_conference/

Was it the Roman Coliseum?

The Coliseum was a place where a lot of people could sit and watch entertainment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colosseum

Was it the Roman Coliseum?

It was built of concrete and marble and limestone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colosseumhttp://www.romanlife-romeitaly.com/ancient-roman-colosseum.html

Was it the Roman Coliseum?

The entertainment was mostly people killing animals, or people killing each other. It was almost exactly like a football stadium today.

http://www.roman-colosseum.info/

Real

Modern “Coliseums”

Imagined

http://www.thecowboyscentral.com/2011/02/cowboys-stadium-still-seeks-deal-for-official-name.html/

http://wizardinglife.com/tag/quidditch/

Was it the Greek Parthenon?

The Parthenon was a temple to Athena built on top of the highest hill in Athens, the Acropolis (Acropolis means High City).

http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Arts/Parthenon.htm

Was it the Greek Parthenon?

The architects of the Parthenon set out to make it the best temple ever. Most Greek temples had six columns across the front – the Parthenon has eight.

http://puffin.creighton.edu/eselk/intro-phil_on-line-course/Intro-phl-ol_Plato_Apology-Crito/Parthenon-history-sculpture_pg3.htm

http://www.students.sbc.edu/mdavis04/Parthenon%20Gallery%20of%20Images.htm

Was it the Greek Parthenon?

Inside the temple, the architect carved a huge statue of Athena made out of gold and ivory. Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, war, the arts, industry, justice and skill.

http://arthistory.sdsu.edu/568/568_1/1_3.html

Modern “Parthenon”

http://www.visitingdc.com/memorial/lincoln-memorial-picture.htm

http://www.mountainviewcoins.com/Lincoln_Cents.php

http://www.weblo.com/asset_image/466133/78955/The_Lincoln_Memorial/

Greek: Parthenon

So, Greek or Roman, Which Came First?

Roman: Coliseum

http://newmexicoindependent.com/24755/roman-coliseum-to-be-lit-in-honor-of-new-mexico

http://www.powerplaces.org/emailpromo/crete_2006_conference/

Greek Came First

It was the great age of developing ideas in art, science, politics and more.

In art Romans were influenced by the Greeks who were absorbed into their empire.

http://www.artic.edu/cleo/MapGreece.html

http://www.artic.edu/cleo/MapItaly.html

Classical Greece 500-338BC

Roman Empire 27 BC – AD 1453

Greek Art

Very few Greek painted pictures have survived the 2500 years since they were painted. So most of what we know about Greek art comes from the pictures they painted on fancy pottery.

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/24.97.30

Greek Art

Pottery, even if it gets broken, can be put back together, and a good deal of it has even survived whole, mostly in Etruscan tombs.

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1976.11.5

Greek Art

But by around 450 BC, just eighty years after the invention of red-figure painting, hardly any vases were still being produced. We don't really know why this happened. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/

31.11.11

Greek Art

Maybe the Athenians were rich enough that they didn't need to sell their pottery to other people. Also, the Etruscans, who had bought a lot of this pottery, were no longer doing very well by 450 BC, and maybe they couldn't afford to buy Athenian pottery anymore.

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/56.11.1

What’s Your Story?

Both kinds of Greek Pots have pictures that tell a story.What story will you put on your clay pot?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_to_mehttp://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/architecture/colosseum.htm

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/architecture/parthenon2.htm

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/athena.html http://www.artic.edu/cleo/index.html http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/index.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome http://www.ancientgreece.com/s/History/ http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/art/pottery/greekpots.htm

Resources