Download Greece[1] - AP World History

Unit 1, Chapter 4
•Formative phase
•Phoenicians
•alphabet
The Acropolis Today
The Agora
Archaic Philosophy
•Focus on Individual
•Humanism
•Lyric poetry
•Pre-Socratic philosophers
•Logographers
•Success of Greece against Persia
•Death of Alexander the Great
•orality to literacy
Persian Wars: 499 BCE – 480 BCE
ATHENS: Yesterday & Today
Golden “Age of Pericles”:
460 BCE – 429 BCE
Democracy?
•Free, adult males of Athenian ancestry
•10 – 15 % of population
•Slavery
•Limited rights of women
Great Athenian Philosophers
$ Socrates
 Know thyself!
 question everything
 only the pursuit of goodness
brings happiness
$ Plato
 The Academy
 dialogues
 The Republic
Great Athenian Philosophers
$ Aristotle
 tutor of Alexander the Great
 The Lyceum
 “Golden Mean”
 scientific method
Aristotle's Concept of the Golden Mean
-- Defect --
BALANCE
+ Excess +
cowardice
COURAGE
rashness
stinginess
LIBERALITY
extravagance
sloth
AMBITION
greed
humility
MODESTY
pride
secrecy
HONESTY
loquacity
moroseness
GOOD HUMOR
buffoonery
quarrelsomeness
FRIENDSHIP
flattery
self-indulgence
TEMPERANCE
insensibility
apathy
EQUANIMITY
irascibility
Hamlet's Indecisiveness
Atticus' SELF CONTROL
Don Quixote's
Impulsiveness
*Derived from The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
The Classical Greek “Ideal”
Olympia
The Ancient Olympics:
Athletes & Trainers
•Hellenized or under Greek influence
The Hellenization of Asia
Hellenism: The Arts & Sciences
$ Scientists / Mathematicians:
 Aristarchus  heliocentric theory
 Euclid  geometry
 Archimedes  pulley
$ Hellenistic Art:
 More realistic; less ideal than
Hellenic art
 Showed individual emotions,
wrinkles, and age!