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Chapter 2: Classical and
Hellenistic Greece
Section 6: The Culture of
Classical Greece
By Dallin Hardy
The Fifth Century
B.C.
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Classical Greece
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510-323 B.C.
Heavily influenced
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Rome
Western Civilization
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Greek Drama
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Religious plays
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Attic Tragedy
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Theater of Dionysus
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Athens
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Aeschylus
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The Oresteia
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Orestes Pursued by the
Furies (1862)
Adolphe-William
Bouguereau (1825-1905)
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Sophocles
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Antigone
Oedipus Rex
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Euripides
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The Trojan Women
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Old Comedy
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Humorous plays
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Mocked
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People
Customs
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Aristophanes
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Lysistrata
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Architecture
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Three orders of Greek
architecture
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Doric
Ionic
Corinthian
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Rebuilding of Athens
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448 B.C.
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Parthenon
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447-438 B.C.
Athenian Acropolis
Dedicated to
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Athena
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Statue of Athena
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Pericles’ Athens
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Philosophy
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Natural science
Reality
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School of Hellas
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Athens
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Intellectual center of
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Greece
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“We cultivate the
mind…we are lovers of
the beautiful, yet simple
in our tastes.”
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Pericles
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Thinkers and
Philosophers
were called,
“lovers of
wisdom.”
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Atomist Theory
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Developed by
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Leucippus
Democritus
World
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Consists of
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Small atoms
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Pythagoras
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Sacred Geometry
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Sophists
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Mid-5th century B.C.
Taught
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Rhetoric
Dialectic
Argumentation
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History
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Herodotus
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“Father of History”
Wrote
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The Histories
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Historical account of
 Persian Wars
First real history of
 Western Civilization
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Thucydides
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“Father of Scientific History”
Wrote
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History of The Peloponnesian
War
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Hippocratic School
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Pioneered
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Medicine
Scientific theory
Emphasized
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Diagnosis and treatment
through careful observation
and reason
The Fourth Century B.C.
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Drama
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Menander
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Tragicomedy
Portrays foibles of
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Ordinary people
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Sculpture
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5th-century Sculpture
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4th-century Sculpture
Philosophy and the Crisis of the
Polis
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Socrates
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Philosopher
Socratic Method
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Use of a series of questions
to encourage logical
thinking
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“The unexamined life is
not worth living”
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Socrates
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Trial of Socrates
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399 B.C.
Socrates
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Critic of the
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Peloponnesian War
Convicted & sentenced to
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Death
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Execution of Socrates
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Cynic School
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Philosophical movement
Ridiculed
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Religious observances
Turned away from
involvement in the
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Polis
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Plato
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Student of Socrates
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The Academy
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386 B.C.
Established by
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Plato
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Plato’s Political Philosophy
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Just and Rational State
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Needed in order for
individuals to achieve
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
Good life
The Republic
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380 B.C.
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Aristotle
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Student of
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
Plato
Founding figure in
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Western philosophy
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Lyceum
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335 B.C.
Established by
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Aristotle
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Aristotle’s Moderation
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“Golden Mean”
Moderate course
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Aristotle’s Political Philosophy
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Individualism