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Greek Culture

Philosophy Explanation of the nature of the universe Questions of reality and human existence Thales – 1 st philosopher

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  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”

Drama Festivals of Dionysus (God of Wine) –Playwrights submit 4 plays for competition Method of presentation –Actors with masks –Chorus –Acoustics –Reserved seats –Dry seats –Mechanics Themes –Trojan war characters and their descendents –Ethics from Heroic period

Drama Tragedy –The most common of the genrés Of about 1000 written, only 31 remain – all by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides –Hero, Fate, Outside Events –Defeat usually because of Pride Comedies –Hero usually solve their problems

Drama Sophocles –Friend of Pericles –Great prestige and wealth –Wrote 123 plays, but only 7 exist –Sophoclean tragic heroes Have tragic defects Are likeable and we feel sorry for them –Introduced two-actor interaction –Conflict: Tradition and loyalty to king (Antigone) Good intentions and fate (Oedipus the King) Euripides Aristophanes - Father of Greek Comedy

History Herodotus ( BC) –Father of History –Tried to record coherent history –Traveled widely –Books called Researches –Most writing were about Persian wars

History Thucydides ( BC) –Prominent soldier/historian –History of the Peloponnesian Wars

Art Classical Sculpture –Greek principles important Exact proportion—Golden mean Phidias—greatest Greek sculptor Myron – Discus Thrower Parthenon, Temples in Olympia