1. Used with Permission: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley H.S. Chappaqua, NY

2. The Geography of Greece

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

12. SPARTA

13. Helots  Messenians enslaved by the Spartans.

14. ATHENS: Yesterday & Today

15. Piraeus: Athens ’ Port City

16. Phidias ’ Acropolis

17. The Acropolis Today

18. The Parthenon

19. The Agora

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

22. Persian Wars: 499 BCE – 480 BCE

23. 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

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

25. 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

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

27. The Classical Greek “ Ideal ”

28. Olympia

29. The Ancient Olympics: Athletes & Trainers

30. Olympia: Temple to Hera

31. The 2004 Olympics

32. Peloponnesian Wars

33. Macedonia Under Philip II

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