HIS 101 Packback Discussion
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AncientGreeceSummary-1.ppt
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
- Salamis (480 BCE)
- Athenian navy victorious
Golden “Age of Pericles”:
460 BCE – 429 BCE
Great Athenian Philosophers
- Socrates
- Know thyself!
- question everything
- only the pursuit of goodness
brings happiness. - Plato
- The Academy
- The world of the FORMS
- The Republic philosopher-king
Great Athenian Philosophers
- Aristotle
- The Lyceum
- “Golden Mean” [everything in
moderation]. - Logic.
- Scientific method.
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’ 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
Spartans.
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 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 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.
- Showed individual emotions, wrinkles, and age!
The Breakup of Alexander’s Empire
