1. Overview of Classical Greece

2. The Geography of Greece

3. Archaic
Greece:
1650 BC BC

4. Bronze Age Greece

5. Crete: Minoan Civilization (Palace at Knossos)

6. Knossos: Minoan Civilization

7. The Mycenaean Civilization

8. Homer: The “Heroic Age”

9. "Hellenic"
(Classical)
Greece:
700 BC BC

10. ATHENS: Yesterday & Today

11. Piraeus: Athens’ Port City

12. Early Athenian Lawgivers
Draco - “draconian”
Solon
Cleisthenes  created the first democracy!

13. Persian Wars: 499 BC – 480 BC

14. Persian Wars: Famous Battles
Marathon (490 BC) miles from Athens
Thermopylae (480 BC) Spartans at the Mountain pass
Salamis (480 BC) - Athenian navy victorious

15. Golden “Age of Pericles”: 460 BC – 429 BC

16. The Parthenon

17. The Acropolis Today

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

19. Great Athenian Philosophers
Aristotle - the Lyceum - “Golden Mean” [everything in moderation] - Logic - Scientific method.

21. Athens: The Arts & Sciences
DRAMA (tragedians): - Aeschylus - Sophocles - Euripides
THE SCIENCES: - Pythagoras - Democritus  all matter made up of small atoms. - Hippocrates  “Father of Medicine”

22. The Agora

23. The Classical Greek “Ideal”

24. SPARTA

25. SPARTA

26. Peloponnesian Wars

27. Macedonia Under Philip II

28. "Hellenistic"
Greece:
324 BC BC

29. Alexander the Great

30. Alexander the Great’s Empire

31. The Hellenization of Asia

32. 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.

33. Hellenistic Philosophers
Stoics  Zeno - nature is the expansion of divine will. - concept of natural law. - get involved in politics, not for personal gain, but to perform virtuous acts for the good of all. - true happiness is found in great achievements.

34. The Breakup of Alexander’s Empire