Achievements of Ancient Greece Lesson #10
Last Time We Met…. Alexander the Great conquered a great empire that included Greece, Persia, Mesopotamia and Egypt. Hellenistic Culture was mostly influenced by the Greeks but also included pieces of Persian, Syrian and Egyptian cultures. Alexander is credited with spreading Greek culture to a large area beyond the Greek peninsula.
Sculpture, Painting, Architecture and Writing Greek Art Sculpture, Painting, Architecture and Writing Greek artists studied the human body to capture movement and to make the body look as real as possible.
Winged victory of Samothrace Venus De Milo Created 130-100bc Winged victory of Samothrace 300bc
Unknown year of creation Laocoon And His Sons Unknown year of creation
Greek Painting Ancient Greek painting is almost always done in red and black and on vases or other pottery
Architecture Columns are the key feature of all Greek architecture. Columns standing in a long row look curved in the middle. To correct this optical illusion, columns were made to bulge in the middle which made columns look perfectly straight!
Drama The ancient Greeks invented acting in plays. They also invented the two basic types of drama; Comedy and Tragedy.
Philosophy Socrates – Plato – Aristotle Philosophy is the love and pursuit of knowledge. Socrates – Plato – Aristotle
Socrates The greatest of the Greek thinkers. Believed people should never stop looking for truth. One of the greatest teachers of the past. Socrates taught by constantly asking questions of his students. Today, this style of teaching is called the Socratic Method.
the ideas of the Ancient Science Euclid made great discoveries in math and geometry. Hippocrates made great discoveries in medicine. His ideas are still used today and doctors still take the Hippocratic Oath. Much of Western society is based on the ideas of the Ancient Greeks.