1. Ancient Greek Contributions

2. Origins of Democracy Draco Solon Cleisthenes First Greek law code
Very strict
Solon
Revised the code
Outlawed debt slavery
All citizens could vote
Cleisthenes
Reformed government branches to increase political participation– people participate! Laws can change!
Q: Did Classical Greek Democracy created the same levels of stability as pharaonic dynasties in Egypt?

3. History Homer Herodotus- History of the Ancient Near East
The Iliad
Recorded oral history
Herodotus- History of the Ancient Near East
Father of History
First to do research
The Histories
Thucydides, etc
History of the Peloponnesian War
Studied politics through speeches

4. Philosophy Lovers of wisdom use reason to understand the universe
Socrates: Socratic Method– question observation and reason
Plato: ideal society and government
Aristotle: Scientific Method– investigate experimentation and analysis
Pythagoras: theorems

5. Religion Mythology Polytheistic Little spirituality or morality
Gods have human characteristics

6. Greek Drama Theater and literature Tragedy Comedy Aeschylus Sophocles
Euripides
Aristophanes

7. Architecture The Parthenon: The Temple to Athena Pediments Friezes 
DORIC COLUMNS

8. Pediment Sculptures
EPA- DC, 2012, LKH

9. Doric Columns
IRS- DC, 2012

10. Ionic Columns
Pediment
Ionic Columns
The British Museum- 1997

11. Corinthian Columns
Pediment
Corinthian Columns
The Magdalene- 2002

12. Idealized Sculpture The Goddess Athena Nike of Samothrace
Louvre LKH

13. Early Sculpture
Kouros figures illustrate the first “movement” in sculpture
The beginnings of Contra posto- an S curve to the body
Louvre :LKH

14. Idealized Sculpture- Elgin Marbles
Pediment Sculpture- British Museum- 1997

15. Red Black Pottery