THE ANCIENT GREEKS (APPROX. 8000 B.C. TO 30 B.C.)

IT LOOKS GREEK TO ME!

1. WHAT’S IT CALLED?

2. WHAT IS IT?

3. WHAT MATHEMATICS IS THIS?

4. WHERE DO WE FIND THE GOLDEN RECTANGLE? (A GOLDEN RECTANGLE IS ONE WHOSE SIDE LENGTHS ARE IN THE GOLDEN RATIO, OR APPROXIMATELY 1:1.618. PHI IS 1.618.)

5. WHERE DO WE FIND THE GOLDEN SPIRAL? (IN GEOMETRY, A GOLDEN SPIRAL IS A LOGARITHMIC SPIRAL WHOSE GROWTH FACTOR IS Φ, THE GOLDEN RATIO.  THAT IS, A GOLDEN SPIRAL GETS WIDER (OR FURTHER FROM ITS ORIGIN) BY A FACTOR OF Φ FOR EVERY QUARTER TURN IT MAKES.

6. WHAT IS IT?

7. WHAT IS IT?

8. WHAT IS IT?

9. WHAT TYPE OF GOVERNMENT IS IT?

10. WHO SCULPTED IT?

11. WHAT IS IT?

A. B.

12. WHAT DO THESE MEN HAVE IN COMMON OTHER THAN BEING GREEK? (IT’S A VOCABULARY WORD WE LEARNED THIS YEAR.)

Aristotle

13. WHAT MATHEMATICS IS THIS?

14. WHAT SUBJECT DID THEY HELP PERFECT?

15. HAVE YOU EVER HEARD IT? PICK THREE TO IDENTIFY IN OUR CULTURE.

Labyrinth The Midas Touch Atlas Panic One Size Fits All A Sisyphean Task Titans A Herculean

Effort/Task Achilles Heel A Young Adonis

Nike Aetna Siren Song Cyclops Arachnid Narcissism Titanic Opened Pandora’s Box A Trojan Horse Amazon

THOSE FABULOUS GREEKS

All of the previous examples came from ancient Greek culture and mythology. It is understood that educated people recognize and discuss these allusions as contributions to modern society.

Without the Ancient Greeks, so many of the things we see around us would not exist the way they do now.

SO LET’S LEARN MORE ABOUT……

Those Fabulous Greeks!