1. Greek
Philosophy
& Science
Unit 1, Chapter 4

2. Archaic
Greece:
BCE
Formative phase
Phoenicians
alphabet

3. The Acropolis Today

4. The Agora

5. Archaic Philosophy Focus on Individual Humanism Lyric poetry
Pre-Socratic philosophers
Logographers

6. "Hellenic" (Classical) Greece: 480 - 323 BCE
Success of Greece against Persia
Death of Alexander the Great
orality to literacy

7. Persian Wars: 499 BCE – 480 BCE

8. ATHENS: Yesterday & Today

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

10. Democracy? Free, adult males of Athenian ancestry
10 – 15 % of population
Slavery
Limited rights of women

11. Great Athenian Philosophers
Socrates
Know thyself!
question everything
only the pursuit of goodness brings happiness
Plato
The Academy
dialogues
The Republic

12. Great Athenian Philosophers
Aristotle
tutor of Alexander the Great
The Lyceum
“Golden Mean”
scientific method

13. Aristotle's Concept of the Golden Mean
-- Defect --
BALANCE
+ Excess +
cowardice
COURAGE
rashness
stinginess
LIBERALITY
extravagance
sloth
AMBITION
greed
humility
MODESTY
pride
secrecy
HONESTY
loquacity
moroseness
GOOD HUMOR
buffoonery
quarrelsomeness
 FRIENDSHIP
flattery
self-indulgence
TEMPERANCE
insensibility
apathy
EQUANIMITY
irascibility
Hamlet's Indecisiveness
 Atticus' SELF CONTROL
Don Quixote's Impulsiveness
*Derived from The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant

14. The Classical Greek “Ideal”

16. Olympia

17. The Ancient Olympics: Athletes & Trainers

18. "Hellenistic"
Greece:
BCE
Hellenized or under Greek influence

19. The Hellenization of Asia

20. 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!