1. Golden Age of Greece Madnick/Global History 9

2. Golden Age of Greece After the Persian Wars Greece had its Golden Age (460-330BCE) --a period when a culture has wealth, peace, and great achievements The Golden Age of Greece took place in Athens

3. Golden Age of Greece After the Persian Wars Greece had its

4. Architecture The Parthenon 447 BCE Architects: Ictinus and Callicrates rectangular floor--101 ft. by 228 ft 46 columns--8 front and back/17 on sides Steps on all sides White marble Post and beam architecture—verticals support horizontals Mathematical Ratio of 9:4

5. Architecture The Parthenon

7. Architecture The Parthenon

9. Architecture The Parthenon Contained a 40 ft. statue of Athena Parthenos Greek goddess of universal wisdom symbol of human intelligence No straight line or right angles Columns taper and bend inward Corner columns are larger Base has a 12-cm. curve Built on the Acropolis-highest area of Athens Meant to blend in with curve of the hill and horizon

10. Architecture The Parthenon Contained a 40 ft. statue of Athena Parthenos No straight line or right angles Built on the Acropolis-highest part of Athens

14. Art The Scraper By Lysippos 330 BCE 6’9” White marble Contrapposto the leaning position of a human figure in sculpture or painting; weight shift at the hip

15. Art The Scraper By Lysippos 330 BCE 6’9” White marble

16. Art Discus Thrower By Myron 450 BCE Human figure looks real Nude human figure considered beautiful

17. Art Discus Thrower By Myron 450 BCE

18. Which one has realism?

19. What was beautiful to the Greeks? Wisdom and intelligence Realism-showing things as they really are Individualism-the importance of individual people Reason—logical, scientific thinking that focuses on facts Order Balance

20. What was beautiful to the Greeks?

21. Literature The world’s first comedies and tragedies were written by Greek playwrights: Sophocles wrote comedies that mocked religion and the gods Euripides wrote tragedies about humans with problems beyond their control

22. Literature The world’s first comedies and tragedies were written by Greek playwrights: Sophocles Euripides

23. Philosophy Philosophy = thinking about truth and wisdom Socrates questioned students until they found their own answers; AKA “Socratic Method” Plato described the perfect government in a book called The Republic Aristotle used reason to describe nature; father of physics and biology

24. Philosophy Philosophy = thinking about truth and wisdom Socrates Plato Aristotle

25. Science Eratosthenes measured the Earth’s circumference Aristarchus Heliocentric Theory- Earth revolves around the sun Euclid—Geometry Pythagorus--Pythagorean theorum

26. Science Eratosthenes Aristarchus Euclid—Geometry Pythagoras--Pythagorean theorem