Transcript Document 7341862

The Dorians
Around 1200 BCE, after
the Dorians took over the
Mycenaens (the Dorians
had iron weapons), all
written records stopped.
The Dorians did not write
things down.
Greece fell into a dark
age!
The Dorians
• The Dorians had no written language. Nor did they paint
pictures of their life on ancient vases and pottery. Still, we
know a great deal about them because of the ancient Greek
storytellers.
• The ancient Greeks loved stories. During the Grecian Dark
Ages, some people became professional storytellers. They
went from town to town, earning a living telling stories, the
same stories over and over, until nearly everyone in ancient
Greece knew all the stories by heart. And they told these
stories in the same language. Pretty soon, everyone in
ancient Greece knew the Greek language by heart. It was
the storytellers who gave the ancient Greeks a common
history and a common language.
• They became known as the Hellenes or Greeks
• They divided Greece because they settled in
different regions & developed independently
Terms to Know:
• Polis = Originally a fortress, but late the town that developed within it
together with the surrounding farms.
• City-State = Formally polis, ruled by military nobles & later kings
• Monarchy = Rule of a single person who inherited the right & power to
rule
• Aristocracy = Is rule by a privileged group, usually an upper class of
wealth & social position.
• Tyrant = Means any ruler who seized power by force
• Citizen = A person who owes loyalty to a country and is entitled to that
country’s protection
• Metic = Foreigner living in a Greek city
City-States
• Political life centered on the polis (city-state)
• Each city-state was independent
• An Acropolis was an area that was higher than the rest of the polis.
• Each had a market place called an agora.
• Military commanders ruled the early city-states and became kings.
• The kingship then became a monarchy.
• The king also served as the religious leader of the polis
• The Greeks were at constant war with one another, but were bonded
by a common language, which allowed new ideas to spread from
polis to polis.
• Chief city states = Athens, Corinth, Sparta
City-States
Nobles & Tyrants
• At the end of the Dark Age, the power of the monarchies
declined and were replaced by the Aristocracies (nobles).
• The nobles controlled most of the valuable farmland and
eventually seized control of the governments.
• The nobles passed new laws that stated that people who
failed to pay their debts could be sold into slavery and
their land could be taken away from them.
• Nobles encouraged colonization (building new cities), as
they could not feed the growing populations
• The common people were unhappy with the rule of nobles
and new leaders called tyrants arose.
• Tyrants brought reforms, such as reduced taxation, but
eventually their rule became unjust.
Worksheets
• Students are to read
The Middle Period:
Athens and Sparta &
The Classical Period:
The Golden Age of
Greece
• Complete the Athens
and Sparta Quiz
Sparta
Sparta
• Sparta began as a small village of
Dorian people. The Dorians were
warriors. So were the Spartans.
Spartans endured unbelievable
pain and hardship to become a
superior Spartan soldier and
citizen!
• Peasants were not allowed to leave
the land they worked
• Lycurgus (lawgiver) established the
Spartan form of government. He
wanted Sparta to be able to defeat
all of its enemies and control the
helots (slaves)
Sparta
• Sparta's government was an oligarchy
(ruled by a few)
• They had two hereditary kings that
headed the Spartan form of
government, but the real power was
with five elderly men called ephors.
• Ephors:
– Responsible for the day-to-day workings of
the city
– Became more powerful than the kings
– Commanded Armies
– Decided questions of law
– Conducted business with other countries
– Were elected annually
Sparta
• Citizenship were male landowners
• Assembly was male citizens that are aged +30
years, who discussed and voted on public
issues.
• Senate = 30 males over 60 years old, who set
up the agenda for the assembly and could
overrule the assembly’s actions. They were
elected for life.
• The word Spartan comes from their way of life,
which was hard and without luxuries.
Spartan Boys
• Every male citizen serves as a soldier from
the age of 20 to 60 years old.
• The highest form of devotion would be to
fight in wars.
• Boys trained between the ages of 7 and 20
to become soldiers. They had to live in the
barracks until they were 30.
• Younger children were beaten by older
children who started fights to help make the
younger boys tough and strong. Children
were often were whipped in front of groups of
other Spartans, including their parents, but
they were not allowed to cry out in pain.
Spartan Boys
• Children, during their training process, were
given very little food. They were
encouraged to steal food, instead. If caught
stealing, they were beaten. To avoid severe
pain, children learned to be cunning, to lie,
to cheat, to steal, and how to get away with
it!
• Some children grew up to warriors. Others
became members of the Spartan secret
police. Their job was to spy on people,
especially slaves. If they found a slave who
showed any signs of leadership, their job
was to kill that slave immediately.
• They had to live in military barracks until
they were 30
Spartan Women
• Women, unlike women in the rest of Greek
world, had a great deal of freedom.
• Trained in the household
• Their highest goal was to become a wife
and a mother
• They could inherit property and pass it on to
their children and as a result, they owned ½
the wealth of ancient Sparta.
• Girls were educated in reading and writing
Athens
Athens
• They were famed for their literature, poetry,
drama, theatre, schools, buildings, and
government.
• Before the Greek dark ages, Athens was a
small village, home to a tribe of Ionian
people. After the Greek dark ages, Athens
grew rapidly until Athens was one of the two
most powerful city-states in the ancient
Greek world. (The other was Sparta)
• The Greeks believed that each city-state in
ancient Greece had a god or a goddess in
charge of it, their special patron. For
Athens, the patron was Athena, goddess of
wisdom. Perhaps because Athena was their
patron, Athenians put a great deal of
emphasis on education.
Athenian Women
• Girls learned at home from
their mothers. They learned
how to run a home, and how
to be good wives and
mothers.
• Women were rarely seen
outside the home and had no
rights in Athenian Democracy.
• Until age 6 or 7, boys were taught at home by their mothers.
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From 7-14, boys attended a day school outside the home.
There, they memorized Homeric poetry and learned to play
the lyre. They learned drama, public speaking, reading,
writing, math, and perhaps even how to play the flute.
• After middle school, they went to a four year high school and
learned more about math, science, and government.
• At 18, they attended two years of military school.
Athenian Boys
Athenian Government
• The men of Athens met each week to discuss
problems. They worked on solutions. Most
Greek city-states were ruled by kings. The men
of Athens experimented with government.
For about 100 years, Athens was a direct
democracy!
Athenian Rulers leading up to
Democracy!
• Draco
– Organized laws by writing
them in Draco’s Code
– This code stated the laws
and that they applied to all
– Explained harsh
punishments
– Had trials for murder
defendants
Athenian Rulers leading up to
Democracy!
• Solon:
– Made Draco’s laws less harsh
– He wrote economic and social
reforms
– He ended the practice of enslaving
those who failed to pay their debts
– He created a court for all citizens
(women and slaves were not
allowed to be citizens)
– He gave all citizens the right to
vote
Athenian Rulers leading up to
Democracy!
• Cleisthenes:
– Gave more support to the
common people
– He reorganized the social and
military classes and broke the
power of the old noble families
– He permitted some immigrants
and former slaves to become
citizens
– He introduced the practice of
ostracism (banishment of
dangerous people)
Athenian Democracy
• World’s first democracy
• Demos is a Greek work that means people.
• Democracy means the people rule
• Eventually the Athenian assembly became the lawmaking
body. They met every 9 days.
• All free adult male citizens over 21 could participate in the
assembly
Athenian Democracy
• Council of 500 was chosen from volunteers
for each of the 10 districts of the polis and
helped the assembly sort out business. Each
year, 500 names were drawn from all the
citizens of Athens. Those 500 citizens had to
serve for one year as the law makers of
ancient Athens.
• Athens was a direct democracy = citizens
took a direct part in the government. All
citizens of Athens were required to vote on
any new law that this body of 500 citizens
created. One man, one vote, majority ruled.
Women, children, and slaves were not
citizens, and thus could not vote.
• Citizens represented themselves in court
cases and were expected to serve as jurors
and office holders
• Note:
• Rivals in the Greek
World
Athens vs. Sparta
Athens vs. Sparta
• A sea power & Strong Navy
• Imaginative in strategy
• Aided by a widely scattered
& discontented empire of 300
city-states
• 500 triremes (ships)
• 30,000 hoplites (footsoldiers)
• Democracy (govn’t)
• Wanted wealth & trading
• Expanded
• Family was important
• A land power & Strong
Army
• Unimaginative in strategy
• Aided by a compact, loyal
League and by Persians
• 200 triremes
• 100,000 hoplites
• Oligarchic
• Wanted protection, rather
than wealth
• Not interested in expansion
• The sickly/handicapped
were left to die or were
thrown over a cliff
Corinth
• As a coastal city-state, Corinth had a glorious history as a
cultural and trade center. Corinth was a monarchy. The
people were ruled by a king. The king had many advisors.
Together, Corinth's government solved many problems that
face cities today.
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For example, Corinth had a problem with unemployment. To
solve this, they created a huge and successful public works
program. This gave people work, like building new
aqueducts, while solving other city problems, such as the
need for an additional source of drinking water.
• To solve the problem of foreign money pouring into their
polis, the government of Corinth created its own coinage.
They forced traders to exchange their coins for Corinth's
coinage at the bank of Corinth, for a fee of course.
Corinth
• Although Corinth's schools were not as fine, perhaps, as
those of Athens, their boys were educated in the arts and
the sciences. As a child, kids were taught at home. From
age 7-14, boys attended a nearby day school, where
they studied poetry, drama, public speaking, accounting,
reading, writing, math, science, and the flute.
• Boys attended a higher school if their parents could
afford it.
• All boys went to military school for at least two years.
The Golden Age of Greece
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Formed the World’s 1st democracy
Produced the 1st dramas
Built magnificent buildings
Created beautiful statues
Wrote literature, poetry and drama
Took a science approach to
medicine
• Were the 1st to write histories
• Developed a method or classifying
plants
• Developed rules for geometry and
made other mathematical
contributions
• You will need
your hand-out on
the Greek Gods
• The Greeks created stories
to explain things such as
thunder, earthquakes and
other phenomenon. These
kinds of stories are called
myths. Myths involve
heroes, gods, and
supernatural beings and are
used to explain customs,
ways of life, or aspects of the
world in which we live. A
collection of myths is referred
to as mythology.
• The Greeks believed that the
gods and goddesses lived in
a beautiful palace on Mt.
Olympus. They believed that
their gods were immortal and
that there was a god for
every aspect of life.
Myths
Greek Gods
• Zeus was the most powerful of the gods. Should he have to
bring order, he would hurl a thunderbolt. Zeus shared his
powers and ruled with other great gods.
• Hera was the wife of Zeus, and thus, the Queen. Hera was
the goddess of marriage, children, and the home
• Ares, Zeus' son, was the god of war. He tall and handsome
but cruel and vain. Ares could not bear to suffer pain.
• Artemis was goddess of the hunt
• Apollo was Zeus' son and god of the sun, light and music.
Greek Gods
• Poseidon, the lord of the sea, was the brother of Zeus
• Athena, for whom Athens was named, was the goddess of
wisdom.
• Aphrodite was the goddess of love and beauty
• Hermes was Zeus' son and the messenger of the
gods. Hermes was noted for his pranks as well as for his
speed.
• Hades, another brother of Zeus, was lord of the dead.
More Greek Gods & Mythical Creatures
• Hephaestus, god of fire, often made metal
tools and weapons to aid the gods and some
fortunate mortals.
• Dionysus was the god of wine, life, hospitality,
and wild things
• Eros was the god of love. He had a bow and
arrow to shoot people and make them fall in
love.
• Pan was half man, half goat, and the god of all
nature. He was also the protector of
shepherds and their flocks
More Greek Gods & Mythical Creatures
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Hercules was another of Zeus' sons. He was half man, half
god, and very strong.
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Centaur was half man, half horse, and tried to steal Hercules'
wife.
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Pegasus was a winged horse
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Cerberus was the three-headed dog that guards the entrance
to the underworld.
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The Muses were daughters of Zeus. They made such
beautiful music with their singing that it brought joy to
everyone who heard them.
Drama
• Almost every Greek city had a theatre because plays were part of many
religious festivals. The Greeks enjoyed singing and dancing. At first, theatres
were only used for festivals.
• The theatres were built on hillsides in the open air and could often hold more
than 18,000 spectators.
• The theatres were open air and built in a semi-circular shape with rows of
tiered stone seating around it. The shape of the theatres gave everyone in
the audience excellent viewing and also meant they could hear the actors
well too. In the centre of the theatre was a circular dancing floor (orchestra),
with an altar for sacrifices dedicated to Dionysus. The stage was a raised
area within this circle.
• All the actors were men. They wore large masks that exaggerated facial
features and emotions. The mouth hole was large to help amplify the voices.
Greek plays were either comedies or tragedies. Tragedies were often about
the past, whereas comedies tended to be about current and everyday life.
Actors in comedies wore bright colours. Actors in tragedies wore dark
colours.
• Plays were either spoken or sung in rhyme.
Theatres
Theatres
• The first Olympics games are usually given the start year of 776
BCE, but they probably began even sooner. They were held to
honour the Greek God Zeus.
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The ancient Greeks loved competitions of all sorts, especially
sporting competitions. The Olympics were not the only games held
in ancient Greece, but they were the most popular. 1ST event was a
running race
• Nearly all the ancient Greek cities sent teams to participate in the
ancient Greek Olympics. Each city-state had its own flag, cheers
and they would dress alike. If two or more Greek city-states happen
to be at war with each other when the game date arrived, war was
halted for 1 month for the duration of the games. Everyone wanted
their city-state to win!
• Married women were not allowed to participate or watch
Medicine
• They developed procedures for
treating sick people with herbs,
special diets and exercise.
• They researched sick people and
developed treatments.
• Hippocrates is known as the Father
of Medicine. He wrote 53 books on
science and medicine. He is best
known for the Hippocratic Oath,
which is an oath that deals with ethics
in medicine
Mathematics
• Pythagoras developed a theory
that the world is based on
mathematical patterns.
• Heraclitus developed a theory
involving atoms.
• Euclid wrote a book on geometry.
• Archimedes discovered the
principle of the lever.
Archimedes
• The king commissioned the crafting of a crown as a tribute to the gods.
He gave a carefully weighed amount of gold to a smith, who produced a
beautiful crown. The king became suspicious, however, that the
craftsman had not used all of the gold he had been given. It was a
common trick to alloy gold with cheaper silver, but the King had no way
of proving the craftsman had been dishonest. He called upon his close
friend Archimedes to solve the problem.
• Archimedes knew that gold and silver have different densities, meaning
that a lump of gold will weigh about twice as much as a lump of silver
the same size. The trouble was that no one knew how to work out the
size of an irregularly shaped object like a crown. While he pondered this
problem, Archimedes went to the public baths to relax. As he slipped into
the water he noticed some spilling over the edge, and he had a sudden
flash of inspiration. The amount of displaced water must be exactly the
same volume as him. And if you know the volume of an object you can
now easily calculate its density.
Archimedes
• All Archimedes had to do was find
out whether a lump of pure gold,
with the same volume as the
crown, weighed more.
• The crown would be lighter than it
should be if the craftsman had
deviously used some silver
instead.
• Archimedes, in a fit of jubilation,
leapt straight out of the bath and
ran naked down the streets
shouting “Eureka!” – “I’ve found
it!” The goldsmith soon confessed
and was dealt with by the King.
The ancient Greeks invented three types of columns.
The Doric style is the
most plain.
The Ionic design is
famous for its scrolls.
The Corinthian
style is quite
fancy.
Buildings
• Parthenon: One of the most
beautiful buildings of the Acropolis
that was dedicated to Athena.
• Delphic Oracle: The Pythia was
the priestess presiding over the
Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, located
on the slopes of Mount Parnassus.
The Pythia was widely credited
with giving prophecies inspired by
Apollo, giving her a prominence
unusual for a woman in maledominated ancient Greece
• Oracle: Priest consulted by
Greeks to foretell events through
signs and omens
Movie Time!
• Watch the movie Greek Foot Soldiers and
complete the movie questions. (See
hand-out)
The Persian Wars
Persian Wars
The Persian Wars
• The Persian army had no
doubt that the Greeks
would be easy to
conquer.
• The Persians came three
times, and fought three
huge battles - Marathon,
Thermopylae, and
Salamis. Each time the
Persians were convinced
they could easily conquer
the Greeks. Each time,
the Greeks drove them
away.
The Persian Wars: Marathon
• The first invasion took place in 490 BC.
Darius I was the Persian King at this
time. Darius I decided to conquer all of
Greece. At first the Persians conquered
everyone they met.
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Darius I sent advisers to Greece. Sparta
and Athens refused his control and killed
the Persian advisers. Darius I became
very upset about this.
• He took his army to fight the Greeks at
Marathon. Marathon was a beach 26
miles east of Athens. The Persians lost
this battle.
• A runner was sent to Athens to tell
Athenians the good news of the victory.
He shouted NIKE! (which means victory)
The Persian Wars: Thermopylae
• The second invasion of Greece by the Persians
happened in the year 480 BC.
•
Xerxes was the Persian King at this time. He
gathered a huge army. This army attacked the
Greeks at Thermopylae, a town just north of
Athens.
• Three hundred Spartans under the leadership of
Leonidas I fought in this battle until the last
Greek fell. The Persians then headed to Athens.
• The Athenians received news of the approaching
army. The people left Athens before the Persians
reached the city. The Persians sacked then
burned Athens.
The Persian Wars: Salamis
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Xerxes, the Persian King, was furious at the result of the first two battles with the
now hated Greeks. For the third major battle, the Battle of Salamis, he sent an
incredible number of Persian ships to wage war on Greece, to make sure the
Greeks would be totally destroyed.
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Xerxes was so confident of success that he had his slaves carry a golden throne
from Persia, and set it up on a hillside overlooking the Greek harbor, so he could
be comfortable while he watched the Greeks die. But the Greeks did not die.
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Their small ships (triremes) could maneuver better. The Greeks were able to toss
burning wood aboard the Persian ships and get safely away. The Persians had to
abandon their burning ships. Those Persian sailors who made it to land were
greeted by the Spartan army. The Spartans killed them all. When Xerxes saw
how the battle was going, he ran away and left his army behind. (400 Athens
Ships vs. 1200 Persian Ships)
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While Athens burned the Persian ships, Sparta left some men on the beach to
handle any Persians who made it to shore. The rest of the Sparta army marched
north and defeated the Persian army coming in from that direction. The Greeks
took the day! The few Persians who survived fled.
The Peloponnesian War
Peloponnesian War
Delian League
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After the Persian Wars, the Greeks wanted to make sure they were
ready if the Persians ever returned.
• The Greek city-states formed the Delian League.
• The purpose of the Delian League was to put money into a shared
treasury, to have on hand in case of war.
• It took money to make weapons and ships and to train men.
• The Greeks wanted to be ready to fund a war instantly.
• Athens guarded the treasury.
Peloponnesian League
• Sparta soon created a
confederacy of most of
the other Peloponnesian
states.
• Sparta was in charge and
the other states would
supply troops.
• Each had its own treaty
and sent deputies to help
in decision-making.
• This is known as the
Peloponnesian League.
The Peloponnesian War
• At first, Sparta was fine with Athens guarding the treasury. Athens only
kept 1/60th of the money pouring in from the various city-states to pay for
guards. They reported promptly to all the city-states on what money had
been paid and by whom. But in a short amount of time, the treasury grew
so large that even 1/60th of it was a lot of money! Athens grew rich
guarding the treasury of the Delian league.
• One day, Athens and Sparta quarreled about something. It was an
insignificant quarrel. It was not over the treasury. It was not over anything
really. But Athens and Sparta had never liked each other. This quarrel
started a war that lasted nearly 30 years.
• In the third year of the war, more than half the people in the city of Athens
died – not from fighting - from illness. People from the surrounding
countryside had fled inside the city gates, fleeing Sparta attacks. The city
was not prepared for that many people to live in Athens. There was not
enough food. They did not have a way to safely remove waste. It was a
mess.
The Peloponnesian War
• One of those who died was the young leader Pericles.
Things got worse after that. Athens suffered from poor
leadership and a lack of food. Finally, in April, in the year
404 BCE, Athens surrendered. They were starving. The
Spartans had the town surrounded. The Athenians could
not get to their crops.
• Despite the bitterness, the Spartans were generous.
They did not level the town as Corinth and Thebes
wanted them to do. Instead, they made Athens a satellite
state under a Spartan oligarchy. It was the end of
democracy. Ten years later, Athens regained her
independence. She regained much of her old strength.
But never again was ancient Athens the golden city she
once was.
Ancients Behaving Badly
• Alexander the Great
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkMGise
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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V5jTTg
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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx4NbdHWSY&feature=related
Alexander the Great
• Alexander was a prince, the son of the king of
Macedonia. He was born in Macedonia in 356 BCE.
• Alexander had Greek teachers, one of which was
Aristotle. He spoke Greek. He knew the Greek
history. He believed in the Greek gods. When he was a
boy, Alexander dreamed of teaching everyone,
everywhere, about the wonderful Greek culture he
knew and loved so well.
• Alexander was trained to be a ruler and a warrior and
a leader of men. When Alexander grew up, he started
to expand the Macedonia empire. Everywhere he
went, he introduced the newly conquered people to
Greek literature, myth, dance, language, money,
medicine, art, and theatre. He allowed conquered
people the opportunity to run their own country as long
as they learned the Greek ways. Those people who
refused were killed. Alexander never lost a battle.
• Alexander died young. One day, he was out boating.
He became quite ill and died shortly after. Before his
death, he conquered the ENTIRE known world in the
Mediterranean region. Everywhere he went, people
were introduced to Greek culture and history.
• Although Alexander was not a Greek by birth, scholars
often refer to him as Alexander, the Great Greek.
Movie Time!
• Watch the documentary on
Alexander the Great and
complete the movie
questions. (See Hand-out)
• Complete the worksheets:
Alexander the Great Quiz,
Alexander the Great (1) & (2)
Socrates
• Socrates was a famous teacher in ancient Athens.
He wanted his students to question things. "Is our
government good? If gods exist, where do they
live?" This is known as the Socratic Method. This
angered some of the wealthy nobles in ancient
Athens, not many, but a few. They accused
Socrates of mocking the gods. They demanded a
trial. If found guilty, anyone who mocked the gods
would be killed. This was a severe charge.
• In ancient Athens, anyone could demand a trial.
Whichever side lost the trial paid for the whole trial.
You did not bring charges unless you had lots of
proof or lots of wealth. These men had wealth.
• Socrates thought it was ridiculous. He could not
believe that anyone would find him guilty. He
refused to defend himself. If he had presented a
defense, the jury most probably would have found
him innocent. But, since he said nothing, the jury
had no choice but to find him guilty.
• If you were found guilty in ancient Athens, the
punishment was death. Rather than have the
citizens of Athens kill him, Socrates took poison and
died. He was seventy years old at the time.
Aristotle
• 1st know literary critic
• Wrote a book about theater call
The Poetics
• Classified Plants
• Was a student of Socrates and
a teacher to Alexander the
Great!
• Wrote a book called Politics that
describes the various forms of
government.
• He believed that the most
stable government was one in
which the actions and authority
of one part of the government
were checked and balanced by
another.
Pericles
• Pericles was a young and talented
Athenian. He became an Athenian
General.
• He encouraged his people to build
a wall to defend the city of Athens
from attack should one come. He
led Greece into a Golden Age.
• At the same time, he traveled to
Sparta, and convinced the Spartans
to grant a peace of 30 years, to give
everyone in the Greek world a
chance to recover from the Persian
Wars.
• That success made him famous in
the ancient Greek world. Pericles
was a persuasive speaker!
Plato
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Student of Socrates who wrote two dialogues, Critias
and Timaeus, which mention Atlantis and describe it as
a place where a once-brilliant civilization perished
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Best known for his book The Republic, a record of
Socrates’ conversations with other Athenians. It
outlines a perfect society where philosophers would be
the rulers.
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Plato did not favour democracy, as he thought
unqualified people held important positions.
•
His ideal society was that each citizen would do the
work best suited to his/her ability. The three classes of
people would be the workers, the soldiers and the
ruling philosophers.
•
He believed that women should have equal opportunity
in education & jobs.
•
He also believed that there should be no individual
wealth or privately owned property.
Activity Time!
• Complete the worksheet called Great Men
of the Classical Age
Thespis
• 1st known Greek actor
• Actors’ today are call
Thespians in his
honor
Aesop
• Aesop was an ancient Greek
storyteller who lived around 550
BCE. Some say he was a slave
who so delighted his master with
his moral stories that Aesop was
given his freedom.
• There are no records to prove
that Aesop ever wrote anything
down. Fortunately, many years
after his death, people started to
write down these fables, so they
could be more easily shared.
• Over the centuries, Aesop's
fables have been rewritten and
published and illustrated and
translated into almost every
language in the world. We all
enjoy these wonderful stories
today, stories written about 2,500
years ago!
Aesop’s Fable
• Once upon a time, a long time ago, a fox fell down a well. He was
stuck there for a quite a while. Finally, a goat wandered by.
• "What are you doing?" asked the goat curiously.
• "Stay away," snarled the fox. "This is my water."
• "That's not fair," snapped the goat. "Why should you get all the
water?" Before the fox could say another word, the goat jumped in
the well.
• Quick as a flash, the fox leaped on the goat's back and out of the
well. He ran happily off, leaving the goat stuck in the well.
• THE MORAL OF THIS STORY:
Do not always believe what you hear from someone who
is in trouble.
Clips
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkqBw3
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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBr_Lq
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• Complete the
worksheet:
– The Roman
threat
• Homework:
Famous
Quotations