Please begin class today by responding to this journal prompt in your notebook: Based on our study o

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Please begin class today by responding to this
journal prompt in your notebookBased on our
study of Greece so far, what legacies have the
ancient Greeks left, especially in our own
American culture?
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Western Civ. 9.05.07

• Agenda
• Trading Card Gallery Vote
• HW Check
• Trojan War Greek Soldiers
• Acropolis agora
• English/Greek Language Connections (as a possible
  answer to our Big Questions)
• Homework Read article about the Elgin Marbles
  linked on the course website.

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Homework Check Rivals (pages 115-119)
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Greek Hoplite (Soldier)
Plume
Spear (7-10 feet long)
Corinthian helmet
Pauldron (armor over the shoulders, rather like
epaulets on modern soldiers)
Shield
Sword (2 feet long hidden by shield)
Cuirass (armor to protect upper body)
Greaves (armor to protect knees shins)
Leather sandals
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Trojan War

• Immortalized by Homer and Hollywood
• The Iliad, especially
• Troy eventually falls to the Greeks
• Historical and fictional details have blended
  over time, but Greek Hoplites did unite under the
  various Greek kings to fight Troy at some point
  during the mid 1200s BCE

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THE ACROPOLIS - ATHENS
1 Parthenon - a temple dedicated to Athena
5 Sanctuary of Zeus (god of the
gods) 2 Erechtheum - a temple to Athena
(goddess of 6 Sanctuary of Artemis
(goddess war wisdom) and Poseidon (god
of the sea) of hunting) 3
Altar of Athena - holiest place on the Acropolis
7 Temple of Nike (goddess of victory) 4
Bronze statue of Athena
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Acropolis

• Rocky citadel
• State sanctuary
• Best know because of the Parthenon
• Temple to Athena
• Undergoing restoration
• New marble is from the same rock quarry as the
  original stone
• Agora is usually at the base of the acropolis

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What remains of the Acropolis today
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Aerial view of the agora, Athens
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Acropolis
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Agoraphobia?!

• Guesses?
• A fear of public situations
• Derived from
• Agora (a public space)
• Phobia (a Greek word meaning fear, comes from
  phobos)

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• English word
• Acrophobia
• Autophobia
• Gynophobia
• Hemophobia
• Xenophobia

• Greek derivative
• Akron height or edge of a high city
• Auto self
• Gyne woman
• Haima blood
• Xeno foreign