THE GOLDEN AGE

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THE GOLDEN AGE
OF GREECE
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WHEN WAS GREECE GOLDEN?

• 400s B.C.

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WHY THE GOLDEN AGE?

• Greece entered a period of cultural progress
• Athens was the center of Greek learning and
  artistic achievement

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WHAT DID THEY DO?

• ARCHITECTURE (BUILDINGS)
• PAINTING SCULPTURE
• THEATER-COMEDY TRAGEDY
• PHILOSOPHY
• MATH SCIENCE

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ARCHITECTURE
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ACROPOLIS THE CENTER OF THE CITY, BUILT UPON A
HILL
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PARTHENON A WHITE MARBLE TEMPLE BUILT TO HONOR
THE GODDESS ATHENA
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PAINTINGS
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DIPYLON VASE
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THE BEST PRESERVED GREEK PAINTINGS ARE FROM
VASES. VASE PAINTINGS ILLUSTRATED SCENES FROM
EVERYDAY LIFE AND MYTHOLOGICAL EVENTS.
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SCULPTURE
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THE GODDESS ATHENA
MANY GREEK SCULPTURES WERE BUILT TO HONOR GREEK
GODS AND GODDESSES
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THE DISCUS THROWER GREEK SCULPTURES FOCUSED ON
THE FORM AND STRUCTURE OF THE HUMAN BODY
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THEATER
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GREEK THEATERS CONSTRUCTED AS EARLY AS 300 B.C.
CAN SEAT UP TO 12,000 PEOPLE HAVE AN ADVANCED
SYSTEM OF ACOUSTICS
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DRAMA

• The Greeks were the first people to write dramas
  plays that have conflict and emotion

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TRAGEDY

• THE MAIN CHARACTER STRUGGLES AGAINST FATE, OR
  EVENTS.
• EXAMPLES OF TRAGIC THEMESWAR, DEATH,PRIDE

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COMEDY

• PLAYS THAT MAKE FUN OF PEOPLE AND IDEAS
• THE MAIN CHARACTERS SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS IN THE
  END.

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PHILOSOPHY
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PHILOSOPHY IS

• The study of basic questions of reality and human
  existence

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Philosophers in Ancient Greece SOCRATES, PLATO,
ARISTOTLE
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Socrates

• Taught that education was key to personal growth.
• Trained students to think for themselves
• Taught by asking questions (Socratic Method)

http//www.philosophypages.com/ph/socr.htm
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Plato

• Student of Socrates
• Believed only the Gods could create perfection
• Platos ideal government was an Aristocracy
• Ideal rulers were philosophers

http//www.philosophypages.com/ph/plat.htm
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Aristotle

• Collected facts and organized them
• Founded his own school in Athens
• Believed every field of knowledge had to be
  studied logically

http//www.philosophypages.com/ph/aris.htm
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MATH SCIENCE
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HIPPOCRATES

• Wrote 60-70 medical studies
• Studies were based on observation, experiment,
  experience
• The Hippocratic Oath that doctors take today is
  named after Hippocrates

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PYTHAGORAS

• A Mathematician who developed the Pythagorean
  Theorem

C2A2B2
C
A
B
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Archimedes

• Calculated the value of pithe ratio of the
  circumference of a circle to its diameter
• Invented the Archimedes Screw, which draws water
  upward

Example of the Archimedes Screw http//www.mcs.d
rexel.edu/crorres/Archimedes/Screw/ScrewEngraving
.html
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Eratosthenes

• Mathematician and Astronomer
• Calculated the distance around the earth by
  finding the angle of the suns rays from
  different points on the globe

http//www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathem
aticians/Eratosthenes.html