Download Unit 6 Lesson 9 Greek Achievements

Unit 6
Lesson 9
Greek Achievements
Daily Warm-up
1. Which of the Greek advances in Science do you think is the most important in the
USA today, why?
2. At the Agora a stall sells plants in flats. There are 6 plants in each tray. Each flat
has 6 trays. The merchant sold 18 flats on Saturday and 21 flats on Sunday. How
many plants did the merchant sell?
3. There are 40 drachmas in a stack on the tax collectors table. How many are there
in 9 stacks of drachmas?
4. A footrace from Athens to Thebes is broken into 12 stages. Each stage is 14 ½
miles. What is the total distance of the race?
5. Lysandros of Thebes is in training for the Olympic Games. He runs 2 miles in 15
minutes. At that rate, how many miles will he run in 45 minutes?
Generalization: Cultural elements and achievements have both long and short term
impacts.
Big Idea – Ancient Greeks made lasting contributions in the arts, philosophy, and
science
1. - recall – why did people become angry with Socrates? He wanted
people to examine and questions their beliefs about human
qualities such as love and courage, and some people thought that
this questioned the authority of the gods
2. - identify – in what fields did Hippocrates and Euclid make their
greatest achievements? Hippocrates – medicine; Euclid –
mathematics
3. - make inferences – why do some people call Greece the
birthplace of the Western world? Many of the philosophies, dramas,
and scientific ideas upon which our society is based come from
ancient Greece.
Greek Writing
- first historian – Herodotus
- called the “Father of History”
- Thucydides
- wrote history of the Peloponnesian War
- actually served in the war
- analyze – how has Thucydides shaped the
modern study of history?
His impartial history of the
Peloponnesian War
influenced later historians to
cover history impartially as
well
Philosophy
- thinking about thinking
- to understand and explain life
Socrates
- believed that one should never stop looking for knowledge
- method – questions everything (Socratic Method)
- WHY!!!!
- began to anger and frighten people
- thought he was challenging Athenian authority
- condemned to death
- describe – how did Socrates
teach? What is this method of
teaching called?
By asking questions; the Socratic
method
Plato
- student of Socrates
- created school called ‘the Academy’
- wrote The Republic
- Plato’s idea of perfect society
- person responsible for the Atlantis myth
Aristotle
- student of Plato
- idea of the ‘Golden Mean’
- people should use reason to govern their lives
Aristotle ranks the creatures of the Earth
generalizing – what did ancient Greek
philosophers like Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
want to find out?
How the human mind works, how individuals
live and make decisions about behavior
Mathematics
- Euclid
- responsible for many of the rules of geometry
-calculated the size of the Earth
Medicine
- Greek doctors studied the human body
- Galen
- Hippocrates
- tried to understand what caused diseases
- Hippocratic Oath
- explain – what did
Hippocrates contribute to
medicine?
Studied diseases to try to
figure out how to cure them;
gave rules for doctor’s
behavior
Engineering
- Archimedes
- evaluate – why do you think Greek
accomplishments in the arts and sciences are
still admired today?