1. The Greeks
An Introduction

2. Greek Geography Small Land area, Islands Mountainous
Led to Isolated Communities
Peninsulas, Bay, Inlets, and Harbors
Seafarers

3. Mycenae First Greek Civilization 1600-1100 BC Empire vs. Kingdom
Warrior citizen - Heroes
Trade Network
When it falls - the Dark Age of Greece

4. The Trojan War Homer: Epic Poems The Iliad and The Odyssey
King Agamemnon, King of Mycenae, Achilles and Odysseus conquered Troy using the Trojan Horse
Fact or Fiction?
Archeologist Herman Schliemann
Video

5. Importance of Homer The Iliad and Odyssey
Literature: Universal Themes - Hero
Learning Greek and Latin languages - Classical Education throughout the 20th Century.
Students learned Greek through studying these two stories.

6. The Greek City-States Polis Acropolis Agora Phalanx Colonies
The Legend of the 1000
The Greek City-States
Polis
Acropolis
Agora
Phalanx
Colonies

7. Sparta “Spartan” - showing the indifference to comfort or luxury
Military Culture - From Birth to Grave.
Monarchy

8. Athens Oligarchy: Rule by a few (Aristocrats)
Economic Crisis - Land ownership
Solon, Peisistratus, and Cleisthenes
Council of Five Hundred
Athenian Assembly: Democracy

9. The Persian Wars
Athens aids Greek Colonies under the Persian Empire (Darius)
490 BC - Battle of Marathon (Pheidippides)
479 BC - Xerxes invades Greece by land
Alliance of Greek City-States
Greek Build a Navy
Battle of Thermopylae
Battle of Salamis
Battle of Plataea

10. In Nashville Tennessee
Athenian Empire
Classical Greece
Age of Pericles
Direct Democracy
Ostracism
Building Program
In Nashville Tennessee

11. Peloponnesian War (431 - 405 BC)
The Whale v. the Elephant
Peloponnesian War ( BC)
Athens - The Delian League
Sparta - Peloponnesian League
Warrior Society - To control of slaves
Athens chose to stay behind its walls and not fight the superior Spartan Military
Plague Kills many of the Athenians and Pericles, too.
Spartans hire Persian Navy and defeats the Athenian Navy
End of the Greek dominance