Lesson #10

Achievements of Ancient Greece

Last Time We Met….Alexander the Great conquered a great empire that included Greece, Persia, Mesopotamia and Egypt.

Hellenistic Culture was mostly influenced by the Greeks but also included pieces of Persian, Syrian

and Egyptian cultures.

Alexander is credited with spreading Greek culture to a large area beyond the Greek peninsula.

Greek ArtSculpture, Painting,

Architecture and Writing

Greek artists studied the human body to capture movement and to make the body look as real as

possible.

Venus De MiloCreated

130-100bc

Winged victory of Samothra

ce300bc

Laocoon

And His

Sons

Unknown year of creation

Ancient Greek painting is

almost always done in red

and black and on vases or

other pottery

Greek Painting

Architecture• Columns are the key

feature of all Greek architecture.

• Columns standing in a

long row look curved in the middle.

• To correct this optical illusion, columns were made to bulge in the middle which made

columns look perfectly straight!

Drama

The ancient Greeks invented acting in plays.They also invented the two basic types of

drama; Comedy and Tragedy.

PhilosophyPhilosophy is the love and pursuit of knowledge.

Socrates – Plato – Aristotle

Socrates• The greatest of the Greek thinkers.

• Believed people should never stop looking for truth.

• One of the greatest teachers of the past.

• Socrates taught by constantly asking questions of his students.

• Today, this style of teaching is called the Socratic Method.

ScienceEuclid made great discoveries in math and geometry.

Hippocrates made great discoveries in medicine. His ideas are still used today

and doctors still take the Hippocratic Oath.

Much of Westernsociety is based on

the ideas of the AncientGreeks.