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Ancient Greece
The Academy:
Class Activity
McCluskey
Monday, December 5th
• Organizer #2 check (10 pt)
• THE ACADEMY: Class Activity and Notes, 10 pt daily grade
• HW: Organizer #3
Wednesday, Dec. 7th
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Organizer #3 check
Review: Greece, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
Plato: The Cave video (3 min)
Finish Philosophers
ROME: timeline, notes: Power
HW: Study for Map Quiz! (30 pt, word bank provided)
GS 10: Annotated Bibliography
The Academy
Actors:
Herodotus (teacher)
Group 1: Socrates
Group 2: Plato
Group 3: Aristotle
Group 4: Antisthenes and Diogenes
Aristippus
Group 5: Pyrrho
Zeno
Epicurus
The Format:
• Each group will study the basic biography, beliefs, and possible
writing excerpt of its assigned philosopher and give a brief
presentation to the rest of the “Academy” in which all sections
of the given outline can be filled out by your “students.”
• Evaluation: 10 point daily grade
• 5 Pts: thoroughness and accuracy of content
• 5 Pts: clarity and authenticity of presentation
Herodotus:
• Must use evidence
• Analyze why (human behavior)
“Ancient Greece was a powerful civilization under
the leadership of Athens that left a lasting legacy
on Western culture”?
“Ancient”
• 3000 BCE= earliest (Minoan, Mycanean)
• 2000 BCE = Greek Speaking, Acheans
• “Trojan War”, c. 1250 BCE
• “Dark Ages”
• 750-359 BCE = “Hellenic Greece”
• Persian Wars (c. 500 BCE)
• Battle of Marathon
• Battle of Salamis
• “Golden Age” = (477-431BCE) under Pericles
• Pelopponesian Wars (431-404 BCE): Athens loses to Sparta and
Pelop. League
• Philip II, Alexander the Great = Empire (359-323BCE)
• Hellenistic Greece
• Rome!!
“Greece”
“Greece”
• N: Macedonia
• S: Peloponnesus
• Islands, incl. Crete
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Mts.
No rivers
25% arable
POLIS: “city-state” (highest pt = acropolis)
Location: close to everything (trade, Egypt, Persian, Rome)
“Powerful”
• Phalanx= foot soldiers
• Defeated Persian Empire
• Athens: Marathon (“Nike”) (against
Darius)
• Sparta: Salamis (movie “300”) (against
Xerxes)
“Civilization”
Definition of “Civilization”: highly advanced
state of human society in which a high level
of art, science, religion, and government has
been achieved.
“Advanced State of Human Society”
• ART: idealized (vs. Roman = realistic)
• Sculpture
• Architecture (columns)
• SCIENCE
• RELIGION
• Mythology
• Drama (Comedy, Tragedy)
Civ’n: “High level of govt:”
Democracy:
• Draco: Law
• Solon: Popular Reforms
• Cleisthenes: Athenian Assembly
• Pericles: Direct Democracy
• Polis: organized around city-state
• All citizens could vote (citizen?)
“Under the leadership of Athens”:
Sparta may have won the Pelopponesian wars, but
Athens
• Mind + body
• Curiosity, free discussion
Sparta
• Military (too many
slaves)
• “Spartan life” – strict,
brutal discipline
• “Laconic” answers
• Little art or lit.
• “Best fighters in the
world”
“Under Athens”
YES
• Delian League
NO
• Peloponnesian League –
Athens loses empire by
404 BCE
• Philip II of Macedonia
and son, Alexander the
Great = empire (334-323
BCE)
• Greece + Egypt + Persia =
“Hellenistic culture”
• Science! Astronomy!
That left a lasting legacy….
I will defer to Socrates’ method of teaching in this instance…..my
peers?
Legacy….
•“Greece has conquered the
conqueror”
•Alexander the Great?
•Rome?
Perhaps greatest legacies =
Philosophers
• “Philos” = love
• “Soph” = knowledge/learning