1. By: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley H.S. Chappaqua, NY
Final Regents
Review:
GREECE
By: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley H.S. Chappaqua, NY

2. The Geography of Greece

3. Archaic
Greece:
1650 BCE BCE

4. Bronze Age Greece

5. Crete: Minoan Civilization (Palace at Knossos)

6. Knossos: Minoan Civilization

7. Minoan Civilization

8. The Mycenaean Civilization

9. Homer: The “Heroic Age”

10. The Mask of Agamemnon

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

12. ATHENS: Yesterday & Today

13. Piraeus: Athens’ Port City

14. Early Athenian Lawgivers
Draco
“draconian”
Solon
Cleisthenes
created the first democracy!

15. Persian Wars: 499 BCE – 480 BCE

16. 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

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

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.

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

21. Phidias’ Acropolis

22. The Acropolis Today

23. The Parthenon

24. The Agora

25. The Classical Greek “Ideal”

26. Olympia

27. The Ancient Olympics: Athletes & Trainers

28. Olympia: Temple to Hera

29. The 2004 Olympics

30. SPARTA

31. SPARTA
Helots  Messenians enslaved by the Spartans.

32. Peloponnesian Wars

33. Macedonia Under Philip II

34. "Hellenistic"
Greece:
324 BCE BCE

35. Alexander the Great

36. Alexander the Great’s Empire

37. Alexander the Great in Persia

38. The Hellenization of Asia

39. Pergamum: A Hellenistic City

40. The Economy of the Hellenistic World

41. 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.

42. 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.

43. 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!

44. The Breakup of Alexander’s Empire