Ancient Greece

1150-600 BCE

Craft a narrative…

The story of the Greeks _______________________________________600 BCE 30 BCE

What was happening in Hellenic areas in 600? (Think SPICE!) How should we break apart this timeline into periods? Where do the Greeks go and why? Who do they encounter, when, where, and how?

A little more SPICE, please…

Women and Slaves

“We think that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is not just harmless, but is useless.”

Athenian Acropolis: The Parthenon (completed 432 BCE)

The goddess Athena

Parthenon Frieze: showing the procession of Athenians participating in a festival for Athena (Panathenaea)

PARTHENON FRIEZE IMAGESAthenian horsemen

PARTHENON FRIEZE IMAGESAthenian horsemen

PARTHENON FRIEZE IMAGESAthenian women in procession

PARTHENON FRIEZE IMAGESCentauromachy: Order out of chaos!

• The poem the ILIAD by Homer

• War ~1250 BCE, poem written down ~800 BCE

Homer’s Greece

Trojan War Scenes on

Greek Vases: the Greek hero

The AthenIAN Golden Age

Philosophy = Love of Knowledge

History = ἱστορία (historia)

= inquiry

GREEK PHILOSOPHY

“There are two sides to every question.”

-Protagoras

GREEK PHILOSOPHY• Greeks loved debate and the art of persuasion…

but they were also worried that too much argument weakened the idea of an absolute right and wrong.

Socrates470-399 BC

Death of Socratesby Jacques –Louis David (1787)

Theater of Dionysus, Athens

Where did Athens get the money to build the Parthenon?

Athenian Acropolis: The Parthenon

Peloponnesian War (431 BCE-405 BCE)

Macedonia

Philip II

Macedonia

Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great vs. Persia

Alexander the Great & the Persian Empire

The Image of Alexander & Power

Alexander’s Coin Hellenistic Kingdom Coin

Alexander the Great’s Empire: Shortlived but….?

SYNCRETISM

SYNCRETISM

Ptolemies in Egypt

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