1. Art, Architecture, and Culture
Greek
Art, Architecture, and Culture

2. Greek Theater Produced tragedies and comedies
Performed in large, open-air amphitheaters
Theaters often located near religious sites
Sophocles was the Shakespeare of his day

4. Tragedies…

5. Greek Poetry Poetry celebrated Greek history, legends, and heroes
Created a sense of community throughout Greece
Homer wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey

6. Patroclus’ death in the Iliad… Three times he charged the jut of the high wall, three times Apollo battered the man and hurled him back, the god's immortal hands beating down on the gleaming shield. Then at Patroclus' fourth assault, like something superhuman, the god shrieked down his winging words of terror: "Back– Patroclus, Prince, go back! It is not the will of Fate that the proud Trojans' citadel fall before your spear,not even before Achilles--far greater man than you!"

7. Greek Achievements in Math and Science!
Math – Geometry
Archimedes
Discovered the uses of the lever and the pulley
Hippocrates
“Father of Medicine”
Doctors still follow the ethical standard of the Hippocratic Oath

8. The Hippocratic Oath
I swear by Apollo… and…all the gods…the following Oath.
To consider dear to me, as my parents, him who taught me this art; to live in common with him and, if necessary, to share my goods with him; To look upon his children as my own brothers, to teach them this art.
I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone.
I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan
I will preserve the purity of my life and my arts.
In every house where I come I will enter only for the good of my patients, keeping myself far from all ill-doing

9. Greek Architecture Well-proportioned marble buildings
Emphasized harmony and order
Columns convey a theme or idea
Columns convey a theme or idea
Three styles of capitals
Doric
Ionic
Corinthian

10. The Acropolis Today What was its purpose?

11. The Parthenon
What is its purpose?

13. What do you think each style represents?

15. Greek Sculpture Beauty and perfection Idealized the human body
Often used gods as their subjects
How did the Greek portrayal of its subjects influence society?

16. The Laocoon Group – Form vs
The Laocoon Group – Form vs. Reality “Do you believe the enemy have sailed away? Or think that any Grecian gifts are free of craft? Is this the way Ulysses acts? Either Achaeans hide, shut in this wood, or else this is an engine built against our walls.…I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.”

17. Athenian Philosophers

18. Socrates (471-399 BC) “The unexamined life is not worth living”
Socratic method
Question everything
Investigate moral character
Introduced reason and logic as a counter to religion
His death creates a new Greek ideal
Socrates ( BC) “The unexamined life is not worth living”

19. Great Greek Philosophers
Plato
School: The Academy
Equal education
Book: The Republic
Gov’t: philosopher-king
Aristotle
School: The Lyceum
Gov’T: Independently wealthy ruler -King
Scientific method

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