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Athens Vs. Sparta

Totalitarian Sparta

1. Warrior society (all resources go into training soldiers).

Totalitarian Sparta

Warrior society allsoldiers

2. Militarism – the glorification of military power.

Totalitarian Sparta

Militarism glorification power

“Spartans are willing to die for their city because they have no reason to live.” –

Non-Spartan-

Totalitarian Sparta

3. Totalitarianism – government regulates all aspects of society: (Strict government control =

no personal freedom)

Totalitarianism regulates allstrict control

freedom

Spartan military training

Chosen

to live

Military school age 7

Kept

hungry

Physical abuse Ignore

pain

murderMilitaryskills

The Battlefield today

Thermopylae 480 B.C.

300,000

Persians

480 B.C.

300

spartans

300 Spartans at

Democratic Athens

1. Ancient Athens = 1st Democracy in history!

England 1600’s United States 1776

Athens democracy

Democracy

Athenian Democracy

What’s wrong with this picture?2. Direct Democracy – government in which male citizens participate directly rather than

through elected representatives .

DirectMale directly

elected representatives

It’s a man’s world you

know!

Right on Bro!

3. Limited Democracy: Only men could participate; not women or slaves.

Aristotle“The loom is women’s work, not

debate. The man is by nature fitter for command than the female, just as an older person is superior to a younger, more immature person.

-Aristotle

Limited men participate

“Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority but of the whole people. When

it is a question of settling private disputes, everyone is equal before the laws. When it is a question of putting

one person before another in positions of public responsibility, what counts is not membership of a particular class,

but the ability the man possesses. We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as a

harmless but as a useless character.”-Pericles

4. Pericles – leader during Athens golden age (civilization’s peak).

“We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public

affairs, not as a harmless but as a useless character.”

Pericles golden age peak

Golden age of athensPhilosophy

literature

Art & architecture science

mathematics

Philosophy→ Greek thinkers used observation & reason to understand the world around them.

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Philosophy thinkers observation reason world

Humanism – focus on worldly rather than religious subjects and the potential of the human mind.

Humanism worldly religious human mind

Socrates

1. Use logical questioning and reason to seek the truth (Socratic Method).

“The unexamined life is not worth living” -Socrates

Be skeptical question

everything and seek the truth!

logical questioning reason truth Method

I shall carry out the death sentence

myself!

2. Tried and sentenced to death for promoting radical ideas and challenging the government of Athens.

The death of socrates

death radical ideas

Plato

“Man is of all animals the most divine and most civilized; but if he be

ill-educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.”

-Plato

Plato

socrates

1. The wisest and most educated individuals should rule society (anti-democratic). wisest educated

rule

AristotleAnatomy

Astronomy

Embryology

Physics

Zoology

Philosophy

Aesthetics

Economics

Ethics

Government

Metaphysics

Politics

Psychology

Rhetoric

Poetry

Mathematics

Multifaceted genius (symbolic of the spirit of humanism). genius humanism

1. Worshipped the same gods.

zeus Hera

athena aphrodite

Poseidon

Apollo

Greek “Cultural” Unity

2. Greek alphabet.

Greek “Cultural” Unity

3. The Olympic Games.

Greek “Cultural” Unity

4. Fear of the Persian Empire.

The Persians

Greek “Cultural” Unity

• Military Society• Women

Obey Men• Monarchy With Two

Kings• Common

Language

• Laws Made by an Assembly

• Olympic Games

• Trade With Other City-States

• Only Male Citizens Could Vote

• Girls Trained to be Mothers of Soldiers

• Limited Direct Democracy

• Trade & Travel Not Allowed

• Military Training For Boys

• Polythe-istic