The birthplace of modernity

• Please pass your myth to your neighbor to read.
• Keep passing your stories around until you have read at least 5.

• Please read the article silently

• Polytheistic – Many Gods
– Zeus: Ruler of Mount Olympus
– Hera: Zeus’ wife
– Poseidon: Ruler of the Sea
– Artemis: Unmarried women/Hunting
– Apollo: Light/Music/poetry
– Hades: underworld
– Aphrodite: love and beauty http://www.history.com/topics/ancientgreece/videos#greek-gods

• The Greeks farmed, made pottery, and other goods to export and sell.
• They relied on barter until the first coins were made from precious metals

• How has ancient Greece contributed to our modern culture?

• A temple dedicated to Athena in Athens
Greece

• Work: Making pottery/farming/skilled worker
• Agora: Go to the market to purchase goods
• Baths: Open baths that anyone could visit. This served as a social outlet as well as a place to clean

• Started as one race around a stadium
• Today there are 36 different events.
• You can receive :
– Gold: 1 st place
– Silver: 2 nd place
– Bronze: 3 rd place
– http://www.britishmuseum.org/visiting/pl anning_your_visit/object_trails/winning
_at_the_ancient_games.aspx

• Democracy: “rule of the people” in
Greek
• People were chosen by lottery for gov.
duty- this is only in Athens – no where else

• The Greeks were not a unified country unless under attack
• Cities acted as countries which ruled themselves called Polis’
• Typically they did not get along

• The largest and most powerful City-
State
Named and worshiped Athena – Goddess of war and wisdom
Athens is remembered for their gov., education system, and arts.

• A war like city state Sparta was known for being tough warriors
• Women enjoyed rights and freedoms in
Sparta, more so than Athens
• http://www.history.com/topics/ancienthistory/sparta
• They fought in the phalanx: An organized form of a human wall

• http://www.history.com/topics/spartans
/videos#spartans
• http://www.history.com/topics/pelopon nesian-war/videos#deconstructinghistory-spartans

• Originally Greece was ruled by cities that had their own governments
• Athens was a democracy – Its people made its laws
• Sparta was a Monarchy/Oligarchy- A small number of people had control including two kings

• Period in Athens where they rebuild the
Acropolis buildings, arts and education flourished
• They are led by
Pericles – A great leader and orator(speaker)
• They became the most powerful Greek city/state
• Read Funeral Oration

• A philosopher in ancient Greece
• Student of Plato
• Wrote and informed
Greeks on daily life
• Was Alexander the
Great’s personal tutor
• Commonly wrote about good and evil existing together
• Remembered as one of histories greatest thinkers

• Socrates: The most famous teacher in ancient Athens. He would ask students questions until they figured out the question, not by telling them the answer.
• Socrates is known for his quotes as well

• An honest man is always a child
• The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing
• He is richest who is content with the least
• False words are not only evil in themselves but inflict the soul with evil

• Please read the article silently

• Student of Socrates
• Founder of “The Academy” – The first university in the world

• Before the Greeks few people wrote what happened down on paper
• Thucydides wrote down what he called
“The Facts” only
• Two Greeks changed that:
• Thucydides and
Herodotus
• Herodotus wrote more like a story sometimes overstretching the truth

• First person to look at history “scientifically” • Loved to tell storied history. He may not always be accurate but he made the story interesting
• What does that mean?

• A Greek mythological great warrior and hero of the Trojan War
• He had only one weakness – the Achilles heel

• Please read the article silently
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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMhVh6edP
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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLKZ0Adi70 c
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbiR6IMf5K
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• Some of Greece was ruled by the
Persians, but not any major cities
• This was called: The
Ionian Revolt
These Greeks revolted against the
Persians
• Athens and Sparta helped burn the
Persian Capital –
Sardis – to the ground