Slide1 : By: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley H.S. Chappaqua, NY
Slide2 : The Geography of Greece
Slide4 : Bronze Age Greece
Slide5 : Crete: Minoan Civilization (Palace at Knossos)
Slide6 : Knossos: Minoan Civilization
Slide7 : Minoan Civilization
Slide8 : The Mycenaean Civilization
Slide9 : Homer: The “Heroic Age”
Slide10 : The Mask of Agamemnon
Slide12 : ATHENS: Yesterday & Today
Slide13 : Piraeus: Athens’ Port City
Slide14 : Early Athenian Lawgivers Draco
“draconian”
Solon
Cleisthenes
created the first democracy!
Slide15 : Persian Wars: 499 BCE – 480 BCE
Slide16 : 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
Slide17 : Golden “Age of Pericles”: 460 BCE – 429 BCE
Slide18 : 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
Slide19 : Great Athenian Philosophers Aristotle
The Lyceum
“Golden Mean” [everything in moderation].
Logic.
Scientific method.
Slide20 : Athens: The Arts & Sciences DRAMA (tragedians):
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
THE SCIENCES:
Pythagoras
Democritus all matter made up of small atoms.
Hippocrates “Father of Medicine”
Slide21 : Phidias’ Acropolis
Slide22 : The Acropolis Today
Slide23 : The Parthenon
Slide24 : The Agora
Slide25 : The Classical Greek “Ideal”
Slide26 : Olympia
Slide27 : The Ancient Olympics: Athletes & Trainers
Slide28 : Olympia: Temple to Hera
Slide29 : The 2004 Olympics
Slide30 : SPARTA
Slide31 : SPARTA Helots Messenians enslaved by the Spartans.
Slide32 : Peloponnesian Wars
Slide33 : Macedonia Under Philip II
Slide35 : Alexander the Great
Slide36 : Alexander the Great’s Empire
Slide37 : Alexander the Great in Persia
Slide38 : The Hellenization of Asia
Slide39 : Pergamum: A Hellenistic City
Slide40 : The Economy of the Hellenistic World
Slide41 : 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.
Slide42 : 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.
Slide43 : 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!
Slide44 : The Breakup of Alexander’s Empire