Athens Vs. Sparta · 4. Pericles – leader during Athens golden age (civilization’s peak). “We...
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Athens Vs. Sparta
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Athens Vs. Sparta
Totalitarian Sparta
1. Warrior society (all resources go into training soldiers).
Totalitarian Sparta
Warrior society allsoldiers
2. Militarism – the glorification of military power.
Totalitarian Sparta
Militarism glorification power
“Spartans are willing to die for their city because they have no reason to live.” –
Non-Spartan-
Totalitarian Sparta
3. Totalitarianism – government regulates all aspects of society: (Strict government control =
no personal freedom)
Totalitarianism regulates allstrict control
freedom
Spartan military training
Chosen
to live
Military school age 7
Kept
hungry
Physical abuse Ignore
pain
murderMilitaryskills
The Battlefield today
Thermopylae 480 B.C.
300,000
Persians
480 B.C.
300
spartans
300 Spartans at
Democratic Athens
1. Ancient Athens = 1st Democracy in history!
England 1600’s United States 1776
Athens democracy
Democracy
Athenian Democracy
What’s wrong with this picture?2. Direct Democracy – government in which male citizens participate directly rather than
through elected representatives .
DirectMale directly
elected representatives
It’s a man’s world you
know!
Right on Bro!
3. Limited Democracy: Only men could participate; not women or slaves.
Aristotle“The loom is women’s work, not
debate. The man is by nature fitter for command than the female, just as an older person is superior to a younger, more immature person.
-Aristotle
Limited men participate
“Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority but of the whole people. When
it is a question of settling private disputes, everyone is equal before the laws. When it is a question of putting
one person before another in positions of public responsibility, what counts is not membership of a particular class,
but the ability the man possesses. We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as a
harmless but as a useless character.”-Pericles
4. Pericles – leader during Athens golden age (civilization’s peak).
“We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public
affairs, not as a harmless but as a useless character.”
Pericles golden age peak
Golden age of athensPhilosophy
literature
Art & architecture science
mathematics
Philosophy→ Greek thinkers used observation & reason to understand the world around them.
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Philosophy thinkers observation reason world
Humanism – focus on worldly rather than religious subjects and the potential of the human mind.
Humanism worldly religious human mind
Socrates
1. Use logical questioning and reason to seek the truth (Socratic Method).
“The unexamined life is not worth living” -Socrates
Be skeptical question
everything and seek the truth!
logical questioning reason truth Method
I shall carry out the death sentence
myself!
2. Tried and sentenced to death for promoting radical ideas and challenging the government of Athens.
The death of socrates
death radical ideas
Plato
“Man is of all animals the most divine and most civilized; but if he be
ill-educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.”
-Plato
Plato
socrates
1. The wisest and most educated individuals should rule society (anti-democratic). wisest educated
rule
AristotleAnatomy
Astronomy
Embryology
Physics
Zoology
Philosophy
Aesthetics
Economics
Ethics
Government
Metaphysics
Politics
Psychology
Rhetoric
Poetry
Mathematics
Multifaceted genius (symbolic of the spirit of humanism). genius humanism
1. Worshipped the same gods.
zeus Hera
athena aphrodite
Poseidon
Apollo
Greek “Cultural” Unity
3. The Olympic Games.
Greek “Cultural” Unity
4. Fear of the Persian Empire.
The Persians
Greek “Cultural” Unity
• Military Society• Women
Obey Men• Monarchy With Two
Kings• Common
Language
• Laws Made by an Assembly
• Olympic Games
• Trade With Other City-States
• Only Male Citizens Could Vote
• Girls Trained to be Mothers of Soldiers
• Limited Direct Democracy
• Trade & Travel Not Allowed
• Military Training For Boys
• Polythe-istic
