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GREEK CULTURE
• Greek Culture
– Pre-Socratics
• Thales – water as
primary element
• Heraclitus – fire
– “You can never step in the same
stream twice”
• Pythagoras – numbers
• Sophists
– Protagoras – “truth is relative”
• “Man is the measure of all things”
• Socrates (c.469-399BC)
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Challenged Sophists
Truth & virtue connected
Interested in absolutes
“Socratic Method”
Victim of Athenian Politics
• Plato (427-347BC)
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Academy
“Dialogues”
How do we know what we know?
Trust your mind not your senses
“The Republic”
• The Guardians
• Education
• Aristotle (384-322BC)
– Lyceum
– “Father of Logic”
– Trust your observations
(sense and mind)
• Lyric Poetry
– Sappho
• Love poetry
– Pindar
• Poetry about athletes
• Tragedy & Comedy
– Patriotic themes
– “Oedipeia”
• Role of Fate – can’t cheat fate
– “Medea” – a wife’s revenge
– Lysistrata – women tired of war
Punishment for husbands
• Visual Arts
– Sculpture
• to portray the ideal human
• No emotion; total control
– Pottery
• Showing things important to the Greeks
– Battles
– Physical contests
– Architecture
• Columns (Dorian, Ionic, Corinthian)
• Temples to honor the gods
• Open-air theaters