Download Greek Art and Culture

Greek Theater
 Produced tragedies and
comedies
 Performed in large, open-air
amphitheaters
 Theaters often located near
religious sites
 Sophocles was the
Shakespeare of his day
Who do you think got the best seats in the
house?
Tragedies…
Greek Poetry
 Poetry celebrated
Greek history,
legends, and heroes
 Created a sense of
community
throughout Greece
 Homer wrote the Iliad
and the Odyssey
Patroclus’ death in
the Iliad…
Three times Patroclus charged
the jut of the high wall, three
times Apollo battered the man
and hurled him back, the
god's immortal hands beating
down on the gleaming shield.
Then at Patroclus' fourth
assault like something
superhuman, the god shrieked
down his winging words of
terror: "Back– Patroclus,
Prince, go back! It is not the
will of Fate that the proud
Trojans' citadel fall before
your spear,not even before
Achilles--far greater man than
you!"
Greek Achievements in Math and Science!
Science
 Archimedes
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Discovered the uses of the
lever and the pulley
 Hippocrates
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“Father of Medicine”
Doctors still follow the
ethical standard of the
Hippocratic Oath
Math – Geometry
The Hippocratic
Oath
I SWEAR BY APOLLO… AND…ALL THE GODS, ALL THE GODDESSES, TO KEEP
ACCORDING TO MY ABILITY AND MY JUDGMENT, THE FOLLOWING OATH.
TO CONSIDER DEAR TO ME, AS MY PARENTS, HIM WHO TAUGHT ME THIS AR T;
TO LIVE IN COMMON WITH HIM AND, IF NECESSARY, TO SHARE MY GOODS
WITH HIM; TO LOOK UPON HIS CHILDREN AS MY OWN BROTHERS, TO TEACH
THEM THIS ART.
I WILL PRESCRIBE REGIMENS FOR THE GOOD OF MY PATIENTS ACCORDING TO
MY ABILITY AND MY JUDGMENT AND NEVER DO HARM TO ANYONE.
I WILL NOT GIVE A LETHAL DRUG TO ANYONE IF I AM ASKED, NOR WILL I
ADVISE SUCH A PLAN; AND SIMILARLY I WILL NOT GIVE A WOMAN A PESSARY
TO CAUSE AN ABORTION.
BUT I WILL PRESERVE THE PURITY OF MY LIFE AND MY ARTS.
IN EVERY HOUSE WHERE I COME I WILL ENTER ONLY FOR THE GOOD OF MY
PATIENTS, KEEPING MYSELF FAR FROM ALL INTENTIONAL ILL -DOING
ALL THAT MAY COME TO MY KNOWLEDGE IN THE EXERCISE OF MY
PROFESSION OR IN DAILY COMMERCE WITH MEN, WHICH OUGHT NOT TO BE
SPREAD ABROAD, I WILL KEEP SECRET AND WILL NEVER REVEAL.
Wellproportioned
marble buildings
Reflect harmony
and order
Columns convey
a theme or idea
Three styles of
columns
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Doric
Ionic
Corinthian
Greek Architecture
What do you think each style represents?
The Acropolis Today
What was its purpose?
The Parthenon
What is its purpose?
Temple of Hephaestus
Greek Sculpture
 Beauty and perfection
 Idealized the human
body
 Often used gods as
their subjects
 How did the Greek
portrayal of its
subjects influence
society?
The Laocoon Group
“Do you believe the enemy have sailed away? Or think that any Grecian gifts are free of
craft? Is this the way Ulysses acts? Either Achaeans hide, shut in this wood, or else this is an
engine built against our walls.…I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.”
Greek Philosophers
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Ideal Form vs. Rational Thought and Reality
 Know thyself!
 Socratic method
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question
everything
 only the pursuit
of goodness brings
happiness
 Investigate
moral character
Socrates
“The Unexamined Life is not
worth living”
Great Athenian Philosophers
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Plato
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The Academy
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Equal education
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Reason
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The Republic 
philosopher-king
Aristotle
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The Lyceum
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“Golden Mean” –
Like Buddha!
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Independently
wealthy
ruler/monarch
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Scientific method
The School of Athens
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