1. GREECE

2. The Geography of Greece

3. Archaic
Greece:
1650 BCE BCE

4. The Bronze Age
Because of Bronze tools

5. Two concurrent civilizations emerged: Minoan on the Island of Crete

6. Knossos: Minoan Civilization

7. Minoan Civilization

8. The Land of Greece: Mycenaean Civilization
Greek City State

9. Phidias’ Acropolis: Hilltop City

10. The Acropolis Today

11. Parthenon: Draw what you see

12. The Agora: describe what you see

13. Homer: The “Heroic Age”: Wrote the Illiad and the Odyssey
Lots of fighting between the Greek City states

14. The Mask of Agamemnon

15. "Hellenic"
(Classical)
Greece:
700 BCE BCE

16. ATHENS: Yesterday & Today

17. Piraeus: Athens’ Port City

18. Pericles: KING that brought justice. He made Athens democratic.
460 BCE – 429 BCE

19. Persian Wars: 499 BCE – 480 BCE

20. Persian Wars: Famous Battles
Marathon (490 BCE)
26 miles from Athens
Thermopylae (480 BCE)
300 Spartans at the Mountain pass
Salamis (480 BCE)
Athenian navy victorious

21. The Classical Greek “Ideal” in art.

22. The Ancient Olympics: competition between city states.

23. Olympia: Temple to Hera

24. The 2004 Olympics

25. Olympia

26. SPARTA

27. SPARTA
: A warrior class emerged.

28. Philosophers Socrates Know thyself! question everything
only the pursuit of goodness brings happiness.
Plato
The Academy first school
The world of the FORMS
The Republic  philosopher-king

29. Great Athenian Philosophers
Aristotle
The Lyceum: His school
“Golden Mean” [everything in moderation].
Logic.
Scientific method.

30. Athens: The Arts & Sciences
DRAMA (tragedies):
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
THE SCIENCES:
Pythagoras: A2+B2=C2
Democritus  all matter made up of small atoms.
Hippocrates  “Father of Medicine”

31. Athenian Law
Focus on the
Individual
Responsibility
Honor
Integrity

32. Peloponnesian Wars

33. Alexander the Great:
Took over the throne at 19

34. Alexander spread the empire larger than any ruler before him.

35. Alexander’s goal was to spread the wisdom of Greece to the world

36. The Hellenization of Asia

37. Pergamum: A Hellenistic City

38. The Economy of the Hellenistic World

39. Hellenistic Philosophers
Cynics  Diogenes
ignore social conventions & avoid luxuries.
citizens of the world.
live a humble, simple life.
Epicurians  Epicurus
avoid pain & seek pleasure.
all excess leads to pain!
politics should be avoided.

40. Hellenism: The Arts & Sciences
Mathematicians:
Aristarchus  heliocentric theory.
Euclid  geometry
Archimedes  pulley
Hellenistic Art:
More realistic; less ideal than Hellenic art.
Showed individual emotions, wrinkles, and age!

41. The Breakup of Alexander’s Empire