1. GREECE

2. The Geography of Greece

3. Bronze Age Greece

4. Crete: Minoan Civilization (Palace at Knossos)

5. Homer: The “Heroic Age”

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

7. ATHENS:
Yesterday & Today

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

9. Persian Wars: 499 BCE – 480 BCE

10. 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

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

12. 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

13. Great Athenian Philosophers
Aristotle
The Lyceum
“Golden Mean” [everything in moderation].
Logic.
Scientific method.

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

15. Phidias’ Acropolis

16. The Acropolis Today

17. The Parthenon

18. The Agora

19. The Classical Greek “Ideal”

20. The 2004 Olympics

21. Peloponnesian Wars

22. Alexander the Great in Persia

23. The Hellenization of Asia

24. Pergamum: A Hellenistic City

25. 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!

26. The Breakup of Alexander’s Empire