1. Ancient Greece Chapters 4-1,2,3,4 Chapters 4-1,2,3,4 Rise of Greek Civilization Rise of Greek Civilization Chapter 5-1,2 Chapter 5-1,2 Greek Ideas and Accomplishments Greek Ideas and Accomplishments Chapter 5-3,4 Chapter 5-3,4 Alexander the Great Alexander the Great

2. The Geography of Greece

4. Bronze Age Greece

5. Crete: Minoan Civilization (Palace at Knossos)

6. Knossos: Minoan Civilization

7. Minoan Civilization

8. The Mycenaean Civilization

9. Homer: The “Heroic Age”

10. The Mask of Agamemnon

12. ATHENS: Yesterday & Today ATHENS: Yesterday & Today

13. Piraeus: Athens’ Port City

14. Early Athenian Lawgivers  Draco  “ draconian ”  Solon: poet and archetypal wise man (reading in packet)  Cleisthenes  created the first democracy!

15. Persian Wars: 499 BCE – 480 BCE

16. 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

17. Golden “Age of Pericles”: 460 BCE – 429 BCE

18. 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

19. Great Athenian Philosophers  Aristotle  The Lyceum  “ Golden Mean ” [everything in moderation].  Logic.  Scientific method.

20. Athens: The Arts & Sciences  DRAMA (tragedians):  Aeschylus  Sophocles  Euripides  THE SCIENCES:  Pythagoras  Democritus  all matter made up of small atoms.  Hippocrates  “ Father of Medicine ”

21. Phidias’ Acropolis

22. The Acropolis Today

23. The Parthenon

24. The Agora

25. The Classical Greek “Ideal”

26. Olympia

27. The Ancient Olympics: Athletes & Trainers

28. Olympia: Temple to Hera

29. The 2004 Olympics

30. SPARTA

31. Helots  Messenians enslaved by the Spartans.

32. Peloponnesian Wars

33. Macedonia Under Philip II

35. Alexander the Great

36. Alexander the Great’s Empire

37. Alexander the Great in Persia

38. The Hellenization of Asia

39. Pergamum: A Hellenistic City

40. The Economy of the Hellenistic World

41. 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.

42. 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.

43. 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!

44. The Breakup of Alexander’s Empire