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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) – – – – – Challenged Sophists Truth & virtue connected Interested in absolutes “Socratic Method” Victim of Athenian Politics • Plato (427-347BC) – – – – – 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
