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Chapter 5 Section 3 Notes
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I. Pericles’ Three goals for Athens
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A. Golden Age 480 BC – 430 BC
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B. First Goal was to strengthen Athenian democracy
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Voting Stones
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1. Increased the number of paid public officials
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a. More money for average more people involved in government
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2. Direct Democracy a form of government in which citizen
2. Direct Democracy a form of government in which citizen rule directly.
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3. In Athens, male citizens established important government policies.
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4. Pericles used money for treasury to build the largest navy for trade and protection.
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5. Pericles bought gold, ivory and marble to beautify Athens
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a. Parthenon built to honor Athena
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II. Greek Styles in art
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A. Proportion and balance Classical Art
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B. Phidias was the sculptor of the statue of Athena in the Parthenon
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C. Figures that were graceful, strong and perfectly formed.
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III. Greek Drama
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A. Invented Drama in the West
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B. Civic Pride and tribute to the gods
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C. Tragedy
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1. These included love, hate, war and betrayal
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2. Hero had a tragic flaw
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a. Error of judgment or personality defect
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3. Three notable dramatists
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a. Aeschylus wrote The Oresteria about the family of Agamemnon
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525 BC BC Aeschylus
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b. Euripides wrote the play Medea featured sympathetic portrayals of women
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484?-406 BC Euripides
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c. Sophocles wrote Oedipus Rex
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d. Thespius was the inventor of the play
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1. Thespians
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4. Comedy included slapstick situations and crude humor
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a. Inventors of satire making fun of customs, politics and respected people of the time
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b. Aristophanes was one of the best known comics
448?-385? BC
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IV. Spartans and Athenians go to War
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A. Sparta declared war against Athens in 431 B.C.
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Sparta
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B. Wars between Sparta and Athens became known as the Peloponnesian Wars
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C. Peloponnesian Wars lasted for 27 years
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D. Thucydides wrote The History of the Peloponnesian Wars
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Thucydides (about BC)
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V. Philosophers Search for Truth
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A. Philosophers means “Lovers of Wisdom”
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B. Two parts to Greek Philosophy
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1. The Universe is put together in an orderly way
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2. People can understand these laws through logic and reason
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C. The sophists were teachers that questioned everything
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1. Unpopular
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D. The three main philosophers
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(427 BC -347 BC 1. Socrates 469 B.C B.C.
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a. Major question Know Thyself
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b. Placed on trial for corrupting the youth
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2. Plato 427 B.C. –347 B.C. was the student of Socrates
about B.C.)
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a. Plato wrote the book The Republic
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1. About the Ideal society
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3. Aristotle 384 B.C. 322 B.C.
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a. Invented a method arguing according to the rules of logic
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b. Wrote the book Politics
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1. About best governments
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