1. Friday, October 10, 2008 Warm-up
How did the Delian League give Athens more power?
Please sit with a partner. DO NOT TALK in your group or you will work independently today.

2. Today: Turn in HW Greece’s Golden Age led to Peloponnesian Wars
Alexander the Great & Hellenistic Culture
Greek Mythology – creating storyboards

3. Review: Why did Persia want revenge on Athens?
Where did a marathon get its name?
How did the Greek city-states finally work together?
What’s the difference in the Spartan & Athenian governments?

4. Athens’ Golden Age (notes)
Pericles 3 Goals:
- More democratic: created direct democracy
- Stronger: Built up navy to strongest in Greece
- Beautiful: built Parthenon, bought gold, ivory, & marble with “empire’s” money.
Focus on Arts : Drama & History
- Tragedies & comedies – Athens full of thinkers
- Herodotus & Thucydides wrote events of day – first historians!

5. Peloponnesian War Athens & Sparta Fight
Constant rivals! (2 strongest city-states)
Round BC – Athens loses due to plague ; city-states sign a truce
Fight again! This time, Athens loses empire, 404 BC

6. Athens home to philosophers
Use p. 139 to outline the thinking and lives of the three great philosophers in Athens:
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle

7. Athens home to philosophers
- Socrates : believed in truth & justice. Arrested, tried, and put to death.
- Plato : pupil of Socrates. Wrote The Republic about an ideal government with social classes
- Aristotle : pupil of Plato. Wrote books summarizing knowledge. Developed scientific reasoning.

8. Alexander the Great
Takes rule from father Philip II after he captured Greece
Moved east & conquered Persia there, then south to take Persian territory in Egypt
Crowned Pharaoh in Egypt & founded Alexandria, city at mouth of Nile R.
Conquered all the way east to Indus Valley area then turned back.
Fever & died at age Kingdom broken into 3 reigns

9. Alexander’s Legacy: Hellenistic Culture
Cultural Diffusion : spread of ideas from one culture to another
Hellenistic Culture : blending of Egyptian, Persian, Greek, and Indian cultures.
Alexandria : center of commerce. Broad roads lined w/ statues, large palaces, lighthouse called Pharos, library and museum.

10. Lighthouse of Alexandria “Pharos”

11. Library of Alexandria

12. Hellenistic Culture – use p. 147-149 and list ideas
Astronomy
Math
Philosophy
Art

13. Greek Myth Storyboards Do Not Write on Biographies!
Read about Greek God with your group
Outline important information from the biography.
Come up with 12 pictures or “slides” that you think are important to your god.
Write a caption or story to go along with the pictures.
Number the pictures on the storyboard in the order you would put your presentation together.