GREECE
The Geography of Greece
Bronze Age Greece
Crete: Minoan Civilization (Palace at Knossos)
Homer: The “Heroic Age”
"Hellenic" (Classical) Greece: 700 BCE - 324 BCE
ATHENS: Yesterday & Today
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”
The 2004 Olympics
Peloponnesian Wars
Alexander the Great in Persia
The Hellenization of Asia
Pergamum: A Hellenistic City
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