1. Ancient Greece THE GOLDEN AGE OF GREECE / GOLDEN AGE OF PERICLES

2. Greece’s Golden Age – Pericles’ Goals  Strengthen Athenian democracy a. Direct Democracy  people speak for themselves (no representatives) b. Paid government officials – poor men could now serve in the government  Strengthen the Empire – money from the Delian League (alliance of Greek city-states led by Athens) to build up Athens' navy

3. Greece’s Golden Age – Pericles’ Goals  Glorify Athens – use money from the Delian League to purchase gold, ivory, and marble and beautify Athens  rebuilt acropolis, built new temples for the gods, built the Parthenon, etc… Athens  culture center of Greece

4. Greece’s Golden Age – Greek Art  Architecture – Parthenon (dedicated to Athena), Design (reflect the order and harmony of the universe), and Greek columns (Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian)  Sculpture – emphasized natural poses (athletes in motion), realistic (lifelike), and idealistic (gods, goddesses, athletes, etc…)

5. Greece’s Golden Age - Art  Phidias 1. Sculptor 2. Statue of Zeus

6. Greece’s Golden Age – Greek Art  Vases and pottery  Images of Greek life on vases and pottery

7. Greek Columns Doric Ionic Corinthian

8. Acropolis

9. Parthenon

10. Greece’s Golden Age – Greek Drama  Aeschylus 1. Playwright 2. Tragedies 3. Pride could bring misfortune/the gods could bring down even the greatest hero 4. The Oresteia (The Trojan Wars)

11. Greece’s Golden Age – Greek Drama  Euripides 1. Playwright 2. People, not gods, were the cause of human misfortune 3. The Trojan Women (showed suffering of women during the Peloponnesian War)

12. Greece’s Golden Age – Greek Drama  Homer 1. Poet (epics) 2. The Iliad and the Odyssey – journey of Odysseus coming home after the Trojan War  Sophocles 1. Playwright 2. Oedipus and Antigone

13. Literatuere  Homer (Epics) 1.Writer 2.Iliad & the Odyssey

14. Greece’s Golden Age - Philosophy  Socrates 1. Examine one’s beliefs and ideas 2. Socratic Method  question and answer technique to lead pupils to see things for themselves by using their own reason 3. Believed all real knowledge is within each person – “the unexamined life is not worth living”

15. Greece’s Golden Age - Philosophy  Plato 1. Student of Socrates 2. Use reason to create the ideal society 3. State should regulate all aspects of a person’s life – did not trust democracy 4. Wrote The Republic (ideal state) a. Philosopher-king (rulers) b. Soldiers (protectors) c. Workers (producers)

16. Greece’s Golden Age - Philosophy  Aristotle 1. Student of Plato 2. Did not trust democracy 3. Rule by a virtuous leader (moral example) 4. Reason  guided force for learning

17. Greece’s Golden Age - Writers  Herodotus 1. Father of history 2. Stressed the importance of research and bias 3. Wrote The Persian Wars  Thucydides 1. History of the Peloponnesian War 2. Placed a lot of emphasis on accuracy and precision of facts

18. Greece’s Golden Age - Medicine  Hippocrates 1. Doctor 2. Hippocratic Oath  do no harm (rule of ethics for doctors)

19. Greece’s Golden Age - Math & Science  Archimedes 1. Physicist 2. Lever and pulley for moving heavy and large objects  Euclid 1. Mathematician 2. The Elements – basis for modern geometry

20. Greece’s Golden Age - Math & Science  Pythagoras 1. Mathematician 2. Pythagorean Theorem