LECTUREon

Classical Greece

Bronze Age Greece

Birth of Democracy1.Citizens = those that participate in gov2.Sparta = oligarchy

a) 2 Kings…b) Council of elders…c) Assembly...d) Ephors…

3.Athens = direct democracy

a) Assembly… b) Council of 500…

Persian Wars1.Ionian Revolt…

2.Battle of Marathon…

3.Battle of Thermopylae…

4.Battle of Salamis…

Golden Age1.Art = idealism and symmetry

a) Discus Thrower…b) Parthenon…

2.Theater = Tragedya) Sophocles’ Oedipus…b) Euripides’ Medea…

3.Philosophy = thinking and logic

a) Socrates…b) Plato…c) Aristotle…

Golden Age1.Art = idealism and symmetry

a) Discus Thrower…

Golden Age1.Art = idealism and symmetry

a) Discus Thrower…b) Parthenon…

2.Theatera) Sophocles’ Oedipus…b) Euripides’ Medea…

3.Philosophy = thinking and logic

a) Socrates…b) Plato…c) Aristotle…

Golden Age1.Art = idealism and symmetry

a) Discus Thrower…b) Parthenon…

2.Theater = Tragedya) Sophocles’ Oedipus…b) Euripides’ Medea…

3.Philosophy = thinking and logic

a) Socrates…b) Plato…c) Aristotle…

Newspaper Assignment

• News and Current Affairs (your choice for a feature!)• Letters to the Editor (letters for or against Pericles, the Assembly, or

the Council)• Entertainment and Arts (review of a famous play, building, or

sculpture)• Sports Section (report from the most recent Olympics)• Advertisements (Imagine items or foods you might find for sale in

the Greek Agora)• Weather Report (describe the weather in Greece and which god on

Olympian is responsible)• Astrology (describe the latest prophesy from the Oracle of Delphi)• Obituary (invent an obituary for a hoplite infantryman who excelled

at the Battle of Marathon, Thermopylae, or Salamis.

Newspaper Assignment

• News and Current Affairs (your choice for a feature!)• Letters to the Editor (letters for or against Pericles, the Assembly, or

the Council)• Entertainment and Arts (review of a famous play, building, or

sculpture)• Sports Section (report from the most recent Olympics)• Advertisements (Imagine items or foods you might find for sale in

the Greek Agora)• Weather Report (describe the weather in Greece and which god on

Olympian is responsible)• Astrology (describe the latest prophesy from the Oracle of Delphi)• Obituary (invent an obituary for a hoplite infantryman who excelled

at the Battle of Marathon, Thermopylae, or Salamis.