Please begin class today by responding to this journal prompt in your notebook:

Based on our study of Greece so far, what legacies have the ancient Greeks

left, especially in our own American culture?

Western Civ. 9.05.07• Agenda:

– Trading Card Gallery & Vote– HW Check– Trojan War & Greek Soldiers– Acropolis & agora– English/Greek Language Connections (as

a possible answer to our “Big Questions”)

• Homework: Read article about the Elgin Marbles linked on the course website.

Homework Check: Rivals (pages 115-119)

Greek Hoplite (Soldier)

Spear (7-10 feet long)

Plume

Corinthian helmet

Pauldron (armor over the shoulders, rather like epaulets on modern soldiers)

Shield

Cuirass (armor to protect upper

body)

Sword (2 feet long – hidden by shield)

Greaves (armor to protect knees &

shins)

Leather sandals

Trojan War

• Immortalized by Homer and Hollywood– The Iliad, especially

• Troy eventually falls to the Greeks• Historical and fictional details have

blended over time, but Greek Hoplites did unite under the various Greek kings to fight Troy at some point during the mid 1200’s BCE

1 – Parthenon - a temple dedicated to Athena 5 – Sanctuary of Zeus (god of the gods)2 – Erechtheum - a temple to Athena (goddess of 6 – Sanctuary of Artemis (goddess war & wisdom) and Poseidon (god of the sea) of hunting)3 – Altar of Athena - holiest place on the Acropolis 7 – Temple of Nike (goddess of victory)4 – Bronze statue of Athena

THE ACROPOLIS - ATHENS

Acropolis

• Rocky citadel• State sanctuary• Best know because of the Parthenon

– Temple to Athena– Undergoing restoration– New marble is from the same rock

quarry as the original stone• Agora is usually at the base of the

acropolis

What remains of the Acropolis today

Aerial view of the agora, Athens

Acropolis

Agoraphobia?!

• Guesses?• A fear of public situations

– Derived from:•Agora (a public space)

+•Phobia (a Greek word meaning fear,

comes from ‘phobos’)

English word• Acrophobia

• Autophobia

• Gynophobia

• Hemophobia

• Xenophobia

Greek derivative• Akron= height or

edge of a high city

• Auto= self

• Gyne= woman

• Haima= blood

• Xeno= foreign