Transcript Contributions of Ancient Greece

Contributions of Ancient
Greece
North Carolina Geographic Alliance
PowerPoint Presentations 2007
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Government
Democracy – “rule by the people”
Rights and responsibilities of individual
citizens
Citizens were free men whose fathers
had been citizens
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Architecture
• Use of columns
• Acropolis of Athens
• Parthenon
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Art and Literature
•Realistic sculpture
of the human form
•Artistic pottery
•Drama – two types of
plays: tragedies and
comedies
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Art and Literature
•Aesop’s Fables
•Epic poems: Homer’s
Iliad and Odyssey
•Myths of Greek
gods, goddesses, and
heroes
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Education and Science
Philosophy – the love of wisdom
• Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
Mathematics – geometry
Alphabet – adapted from the
Phoenicians
Medicine and geography
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Sports
Olympic Games
•First held in 776 BC in
Olympia
•Events: javelin, discus, and
running
Marathon race
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Three Types of Greek Columns
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Types of Greek Columns
Doric Order
• plain capital
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Types of Greek Columns
Ionic Order
• scroll capital
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Types of Greek Columns
Corinthian Order
• leaf capital
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The Acropolis of Athens
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The Acropolis of Athens
Procession into the Acropolis
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The Parthenon
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Greek Alphabet
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Art and Literature
Discus Thrower
Nike of Samothrace (Winged Victory)
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Art and Literature
Amphora –
decorated urn
from ancient
Greece
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Art and Literature
Theater in
Epidaurus,
Greece
350 BC
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Sports
Ruins at Olympia
Opening Ceremonies of the Modern Games
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Sports
Modern marathon races reflect the distance a soldier in ancient
Greece covered in 490 BC when he carried the news of a Greek
military victory from the town of Marathon to Athens.
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