Overview of Classical Greece

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Overview of Classical Greece
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The Geography of Greece
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Archaic Greece 1650 BC - 700 BC
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Bronze Age Greece
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Crete Minoan Civilization(Palace at Knossos)
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Knossos Minoan Civilization
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The Mycenaean Civilization
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Homer The Heroic Age
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"Hellenic" (Classical) Greece 700 BC - 324 BC
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ATHENS Yesterday Today
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Piraeus Athens Port City
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Early Athenian Lawgivers

• Draco - draconian
• Solon
• Cleisthenes ? created the first democracy!

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Persian Wars 499 BC 480 BC
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Persian Wars Famous Battles

• Marathon (490 BC) - 26 miles from Athens
• Thermopylae (480 BC) - 300 Spartans at the
  Mountain pass
• Salamis (480 BC) - Athenian navy victorious

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Golden Age of Pericles460 BC 429 BC
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The Parthenon
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The Acropolis Today
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Great Athenian Philosophers

• Socrates - Know thyself! - question everything
  - only the pursuit of goodness brings
  happiness.
• Plato - The Academy - the world of the FORMS -
  The Republic ? philosopher-king

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Great Athenian Philosophers

• Aristotle - the Lyceum - Golden Mean
  everything in moderation - Logic -
  Scientific method.

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Athens The Arts Sciences

• DRAMA (tragedians) - Aeschylus - Sophocles
  - Euripides
• THE SCIENCES - Pythagoras - Democritus ?
  all matter made up of small atoms. -
  Hippocrates ? Father of
  Medicine

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The Agora
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The Classical Greek Ideal
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SPARTA
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SPARTA
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Peloponnesian Wars
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Macedonia Under Philip II
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"Hellenistic" Greece 324 BC - 100 BC
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Alexander the Great
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Alexander the Greats Empire
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The Hellenization of Asia
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Hellenistic Philosophers

• Cynics ? Diogenes - ignore social conventions
  avoid luxuries. - citizens of the
  world. - live a humble, simple life.
• Epicurians ? Epicurus - avoid pain seek
  pleasure. - all excess leads to pain! -
  politics should be avoided.

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Hellenistic Philosophers

• Stoics ? Zeno - nature is the expansion of
  divine will. - concept of natural law. - get
  involved in politics, not for personal gain,
  but to perform virtuous acts for the good
  of all. - true happiness is found in great
  achievements.

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The Breakup of Alexanders Empire