Classical Greece

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Classical Greece

• 4.3

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The Challenge of Persia

• Revolt in western Asia Minor
• Battle of Marathon
• Xerxes
• Persian King

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The Growth of the Athenian Empire and the Age of
Perciles

• Delian League
• Pericles
• Expanded empire
• Age of Pericles
• Direct Democracy
• Assembly
• Participation
• Generals
• Ostracism
• School of Greece

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The Great Peloponnesian War

• 431 B.C. 405 B.C.
• Plague
• 70 year struggle
• Sparta, Athens and Thebes
• Macedonia

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Daily Life in Classical Athens

• Largest population
• Citizens, foreigners, slaves
• Women
• Economy
• Farming and trade

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The Culture of Classical Greece

• 4.4

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Greek Religion

• Temples
• 12 Gods and Goddesses
• Mount Olympus
• Zeus
• Athena
• Apollo
• Aphrodite
• Poseidon

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Greek Religion

• Rituals
• Show favor
• Hades
• Festivals
• Olympics
• Oracles

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Greek Drama

• Tragedies
• Oresteia
• Oedipus Rex
• Comedies

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Greek Philosophy

• Organized system of rational thought
• Socrates
• Teacher (Socratic Method)
• Improve individual soul
• Question authority

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Greek Philosophy

• Plato
• Nature of reality
• Ideal State
• Three groups
• Rulers
• Warriors
• Commoners
• Gender Equality
• The Academy

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Greek Philosophy

• Aristotle
• Classification by observation and investigation
• Governments
• Monarchy, aristocracy and constitutional
• Politics

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The Writing of History

• Herodontus
• Thucydides
• accuracy

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The Classical Ideals of Greek Art

• Ideally beautiful human being
• Sculpture
• Lifelike male nudes
• Architecture
• Temple
• Parthenon

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