1. Greece #2: Quest for Beauty & Meaning

2. After the Persian War, Greek culture flourished
Classical art

4. The Parthenon Temple for Athena
Gold & ivory statue of Athena by Phidias
Corrected optical illusion

6. Nashville, Tennessee has a replica of the Parthenon & statue of Athena (see next two slides).

7. http://upload. wikimedia. org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Parthenon. at

9. Greek Columns

16. White House (Ionic)
Lincoln Memorial (Doric)
US Capitol Building (Corinthian)

17. Art Greeks OBSESSED with beauty Realistic & lifelike Pottery
Mythological scenes
Scenes of everyday life

18. Sculpture
Myron
Perfect human form (Discus Thrower)

19. Drama
Tragedy- unhappy ending 
Comedy- happy ending 

20. Dionysus – god of wine & pleasure

22. Sophocles
Oedipus Rex (King who killed his dad & married his mom– forced to do these things by the gods)
When he discovers what he’s done, he blinds himself

24. Aristophanes
Satires—jokes— pointed at society & major leaders

25. http://www. phys. ksu. edu/personal/cdlin/picture/tour-00/greektheater

26. http://artsedge. kennedy-center. org/greece/theater/playersProps

27. Olympics Wanted perfect body Olympics Throwing, wrestling, running
Women had one in honor of goddess Hera

29. The Greek Mind 400s BC: Sophists (traveling teachers)
Believed Greek gods (deities) had little control over people
Philosophers (lovers of wisdom)

30. Socrates Born in Athens (470 BC)
Socratic Method: philosopher questioning student
Reason as only authority
399 BC: “Corrupting the young”- DEATH by hemlock poison

32. Plato Socrates’ student Creates school “The Academy”
1st political science book, The Republic (tries to create perfect govt.)

33. The Republic Just city: Specialization of 3 classes:
Producers (farmers, craftsmen, doctors), Warriors, Rulers (philosopher kings)
Just soul:
3 parts: Lustful, Spirited, Rational (rational part rules, spirited part enforce rational part’s convictions, lustful part must obey)

35. Aristotle Studied at Plato’s Academy Tutored Alexander the Gr8
Opened school “Lyceum”
Scientific Method
Book Politics

37. Historians Herodotus “Father of Greek History”
Wrote about Persian Wars (Historia)
Thucydides
Peloponnesian War history

38. Scientists Thales of Miletus (600s BC) 1st to predicted solar eclipse
Pythagoras (500s BC)
Pythagorean theorem
Music: shorter the string, higher the pitch

41. Hippocrates “Father of Medicine” Hippocratic Oath-code of doctors
Disease caused by things in nature

42. “Hippocratic Fingers” – clubbed fingers = sign of lung diseases Hippocrates discovered

43. Treating Hemorrhoids- Hippocrates did surgery on hemorrhoids

44. Alexander’s Empire Macedonia-north of Greece
359 BC: Philip II King of Macedon
Wanted to…
unify Greek city-states
destroy Persian Empire

45. Philip used Greek phalanxes
338 BC: Philip II took city- states in Greece
336 BC: Philip killed by wife
Olympias set up her son ALEXANDER as king

46. Alexander the Great Tutored by Aristotle Throne by age 20
331 BC: Alexander destroyed Persia
WANTED WORLD DOMINATION!

47. Alexander & troops married Persian women

48. At the Indus River
Soldiers-tired of fighting went home
323 BC: Alexander died of malaria at 33 yrs. old

49. 3 generals divide empire & war constantly until Romans take over

50. Hellenistic Culture-mix of Persian & Greek cultures
Alexandria, Egypt
1st museum (library, research center, zoo, & gardens)

51. Aristarchus-Earth moves around sun
Eratosthenes- Circumference of Earth
Euclid- Geometry book used until 1900

53. Archimedes- compound pulley, explained how levers work, principle of buoyancy, Archimedes Screw