Red-Figure Technique (c. 480 to 425 BC)
... KANTHAROS Dionysos, the Greek god of wine, is often depicted as he drinks from a kantharos. This vessel is a deep cup with two vertical handles which often extend high above the lip of the cup. ...
... KANTHAROS Dionysos, the Greek god of wine, is often depicted as he drinks from a kantharos. This vessel is a deep cup with two vertical handles which often extend high above the lip of the cup. ...
chapter 4, section 2
... • Five men known as ephors were responsible for the youths’ education and the citizens’ conduct. • A council of two kings and 28 men over 60 years of age decided on the issues the assembly would vote on. • The assembly did not debate, but only voted. ...
... • Five men known as ephors were responsible for the youths’ education and the citizens’ conduct. • A council of two kings and 28 men over 60 years of age decided on the issues the assembly would vote on. • The assembly did not debate, but only voted. ...
Ancient Greece - WordPress.com
... Mountains acted like walls separating communities. The Pindus Mountains, which run down the middle of the Balkan Peninsula, were the dominant range, with an average elevation of 2,650 m (8,700 ft). The mountains were once heavily wooded, but early Greeks steadily deforested the slopes for fuel, hous ...
... Mountains acted like walls separating communities. The Pindus Mountains, which run down the middle of the Balkan Peninsula, were the dominant range, with an average elevation of 2,650 m (8,700 ft). The mountains were once heavily wooded, but early Greeks steadily deforested the slopes for fuel, hous ...
The Effect of Hellenistic Culture on Jewish Life
... 330-150 BC, discovered that it was in fact a period of significant Hellenizing even within the land of Palestine. This overturned what earlier scholars posited: that there was an enormous difference culturally between Diaspora Jews and Palestinian Jews. But Hingle, through studying the ancient sourc ...
... 330-150 BC, discovered that it was in fact a period of significant Hellenizing even within the land of Palestine. This overturned what earlier scholars posited: that there was an enormous difference culturally between Diaspora Jews and Palestinian Jews. But Hingle, through studying the ancient sourc ...
AKS 32: Ancient Greece & Rome
... individuals to include Socrates, Plato, & Aristotle and the diffusion of Greek culture by Aristotle’s pupil, Alexander the Great 32h Analyze the changes & continuities from origins to the fall of the Greek Classical Civilization ...
... individuals to include Socrates, Plato, & Aristotle and the diffusion of Greek culture by Aristotle’s pupil, Alexander the Great 32h Analyze the changes & continuities from origins to the fall of the Greek Classical Civilization ...
Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics
... of course, the genius loci. A comparative perspective not only extends across different periods of Greek history but also entails comparison between Greeks and others. My main focal points are the Greek world in classical antiquity (especially in the sixth to fourth centuries BCE), the Byzantine per ...
... of course, the genius loci. A comparative perspective not only extends across different periods of Greek history but also entails comparison between Greeks and others. My main focal points are the Greek world in classical antiquity (especially in the sixth to fourth centuries BCE), the Byzantine per ...
WHI.05: Ancient Greece: Golden Age to Hellenism
... Pericles’s strategy was to avoid land battles and wait behind the city walls for an opportunity to strike Sparta’s allies from the sea grain boats carried in the plague and it killed roughly one-third to one-half of Athens’s population, including Pericles Athens suffered a huge defeat at Syracuse (o ...
... Pericles’s strategy was to avoid land battles and wait behind the city walls for an opportunity to strike Sparta’s allies from the sea grain boats carried in the plague and it killed roughly one-third to one-half of Athens’s population, including Pericles Athens suffered a huge defeat at Syracuse (o ...
Plataea
... The Persian army, under the command of Artabazus tried to retreat all the way back to Asia Minor. Most of the 43,000 survivors were attacked and killed by the forces of Alexander I of Macedon at the estuary of the Strymon river. This ended the defensive phase of the Persian War, although the Persian ...
... The Persian army, under the command of Artabazus tried to retreat all the way back to Asia Minor. Most of the 43,000 survivors were attacked and killed by the forces of Alexander I of Macedon at the estuary of the Strymon river. This ended the defensive phase of the Persian War, although the Persian ...
DISCOBOLUS (DISCUS THROWER)
... The Greek male standing nude figure known as a kouros had a very long life in the artistic development of the male body. The earliest examples were borrowed from Egyptian figure types and date to around 600 BC. The stiff and formulaically composed arrangement of head, torso and limbs served as a veh ...
... The Greek male standing nude figure known as a kouros had a very long life in the artistic development of the male body. The earliest examples were borrowed from Egyptian figure types and date to around 600 BC. The stiff and formulaically composed arrangement of head, torso and limbs served as a veh ...
Teacher`s Guide World History: Ancient
... about how to live a just life, which were passed to Plato and then Aristotle. Those who study philosophy today continue to ask the questions. II. Greek Mythology (7 min.) Mythology played a pivotal role in storytelling for the ancient Greeks. They explained human behavior and the forces of nature wi ...
... about how to live a just life, which were passed to Plato and then Aristotle. Those who study philosophy today continue to ask the questions. II. Greek Mythology (7 min.) Mythology played a pivotal role in storytelling for the ancient Greeks. They explained human behavior and the forces of nature wi ...
Read Article - Michael Scott
... which the entire concept of Athenian democracy was built. That link between democratic debate and tragedy in the theatre is made exceptionally clear in Sophocles's Ajax. It's a difficult play to date, but what is clear is its direct relevance to the kind of deliberation that was happening on a daily ...
... which the entire concept of Athenian democracy was built. That link between democratic debate and tragedy in the theatre is made exceptionally clear in Sophocles's Ajax. It's a difficult play to date, but what is clear is its direct relevance to the kind of deliberation that was happening on a daily ...
Ancient Greek Theatre
... plots and stories in which they had no thought for Dionysus. Hence this comment. Chamaeleon writes similarly in his book on Thespis. (The Suda lexicon) Stories about Thespis the Athenian playwright 11. From when Thespis the poet first acted, who produced a play in the city and the prize was a goat.. ...
... plots and stories in which they had no thought for Dionysus. Hence this comment. Chamaeleon writes similarly in his book on Thespis. (The Suda lexicon) Stories about Thespis the Athenian playwright 11. From when Thespis the poet first acted, who produced a play in the city and the prize was a goat.. ...
Cycladic Culture (3200 2000 BCE)
... tapestrylike patterns of small animals and plant motifs. By contrast, the vase painters of Athens were more inclined to illustrate mythological scenes. Despite variance in dialect—even the way the alphabet was written varied from region to region at this time—the Greek language was a major unifying ...
... tapestrylike patterns of small animals and plant motifs. By contrast, the vase painters of Athens were more inclined to illustrate mythological scenes. Despite variance in dialect—even the way the alphabet was written varied from region to region at this time—the Greek language was a major unifying ...
Ch 5 Greeks Overview
... 2. If Alexander had lived, do you think he would have been as successful in ruling his empire as he was in building it? THINK ABOUT • skills needed for military leadership • skills needed to govern an empire • Alexander’s demonstrated abilities ANSWER ...
... 2. If Alexander had lived, do you think he would have been as successful in ruling his empire as he was in building it? THINK ABOUT • skills needed for military leadership • skills needed to govern an empire • Alexander’s demonstrated abilities ANSWER ...
Lecture 2 - David Kelsey`s Philosophy Home Page
... Persians and drove them back to their ships. The Persians lost a reported 6000 men while the Greeks had only minimal casualties… 480 B.C. = The Persian king Xerxes took an army of near 200,000 to defeat Athens Leonidas lead Spartan soldiers to meet the Persians at Thermopylae. They met at a narrow p ...
... Persians and drove them back to their ships. The Persians lost a reported 6000 men while the Greeks had only minimal casualties… 480 B.C. = The Persian king Xerxes took an army of near 200,000 to defeat Athens Leonidas lead Spartan soldiers to meet the Persians at Thermopylae. They met at a narrow p ...
Periods 1, 3, 4, 6, and 8
... notes from each class and introduce your own thinking from the day’s readings and activities. These journal entries will be checked daily. Chapter 5, Section 5: The Spread of Hellenistic Culture (pp. 146-149) Objective: To understand that Hellenistic culture was a blend not only of the Greek culture ...
... notes from each class and introduce your own thinking from the day’s readings and activities. These journal entries will be checked daily. Chapter 5, Section 5: The Spread of Hellenistic Culture (pp. 146-149) Objective: To understand that Hellenistic culture was a blend not only of the Greek culture ...
Flash Cards
... high city. For purposes of defense early settlers naturally chose elevated ground, frequently a hill with precipitous sides, and these early citadels became in many parts of the world the nuclei of large cities which grew up on the surrounding lower ground. Agora Public part of a city, open-space us ...
... high city. For purposes of defense early settlers naturally chose elevated ground, frequently a hill with precipitous sides, and these early citadels became in many parts of the world the nuclei of large cities which grew up on the surrounding lower ground. Agora Public part of a city, open-space us ...
An Account of the Greeks` Stand Against Persia
... navy. In the build up to the second invasion, he even went so far as to take the surplus of a silver mine, which usually went to the poor, to fund the construction of a larger navy. (“Themistocles”) Sparta, a rival of Athens, was another powerful city-state. Its society was based around its military ...
... navy. In the build up to the second invasion, he even went so far as to take the surplus of a silver mine, which usually went to the poor, to fund the construction of a larger navy. (“Themistocles”) Sparta, a rival of Athens, was another powerful city-state. Its society was based around its military ...
Ancient Greek Words We Use Today
... considered by the Greeks to be their own ancient Mycenaean history, were written down. Another writer, Hesiod, wrote down the oral legends about Greek gods. (The exact birth and death dates of Homer and Hesiod are not known—in fact, Homer’s actual existence is not even certain—but Hesiod was active ...
... considered by the Greeks to be their own ancient Mycenaean history, were written down. Another writer, Hesiod, wrote down the oral legends about Greek gods. (The exact birth and death dates of Homer and Hesiod are not known—in fact, Homer’s actual existence is not even certain—but Hesiod was active ...
WHI.05b: Ancient Greece: Golden Age to Hellenism
... Essential Questions about Ancient Greece, Golden Age to Hellenism 1. Why was the Peloponnesian War important to the spread of Greek culture? 2. Why was the leadership of Pericles important to the development of Athenian life and Greek culture? 3. What were some important contributions of Greek cultu ...
... Essential Questions about Ancient Greece, Golden Age to Hellenism 1. Why was the Peloponnesian War important to the spread of Greek culture? 2. Why was the leadership of Pericles important to the development of Athenian life and Greek culture? 3. What were some important contributions of Greek cultu ...
Quiz 1 Answer Key Following is information to help you assess your
... 4. Where was ancient Greece situated? How did its location impact its development in the Geometric and Archaic periods? To answer this question, you should be able to situate ancient Greece as a peninsula in the Mediterranean basin on the west of the Aegean Sea. Ancient Greece also comprised island ...
... 4. Where was ancient Greece situated? How did its location impact its development in the Geometric and Archaic periods? To answer this question, you should be able to situate ancient Greece as a peninsula in the Mediterranean basin on the west of the Aegean Sea. Ancient Greece also comprised island ...
Greek Knowledge Challenge
... a) The writings of Pericles b) The epics of Homer c) The writings of Herodotus d) The libraries built by Alexander. ...
... a) The writings of Pericles b) The epics of Homer c) The writings of Herodotus d) The libraries built by Alexander. ...
Pompeii and Herculaneum Influence of Greek and Egyptian Cultures
... Because very few inhabitants of Pompeii and Herculaneum could afford to decorate their homes in original Greek art, they had to be satisfied with imitations on their walls of sacred Greek landscapes, Greek panel painting and Greek mythology. The names of individual artists were not usually left with ...
... Because very few inhabitants of Pompeii and Herculaneum could afford to decorate their homes in original Greek art, they had to be satisfied with imitations on their walls of sacred Greek landscapes, Greek panel painting and Greek mythology. The names of individual artists were not usually left with ...
Chapter 10 notes finished
... By 800 bce the poleis were emerging as centers of political organization in Greece During the next century, increasing pop strained the resources of the resource-poor area (rocky peninsula) To relieve these pressures, the Greeks established colonies in other areas of the Med Founded 400+ col ...
... By 800 bce the poleis were emerging as centers of political organization in Greece During the next century, increasing pop strained the resources of the resource-poor area (rocky peninsula) To relieve these pressures, the Greeks established colonies in other areas of the Med Founded 400+ col ...
Greek contributions to Islamic world
Greece played an important role in the transmission of classical knowledge to the Islamic world and to Renaissance Italy, and also in the transmission of medieval Arabic science to Renaissance Italy. Its rich historiographical tradition preserved ancient knowledge upon which art, architecture, literature and technological achievements were built.