1. The Glory That Was Greece

3. ATHENS Highest was the Acropolis
City built on two levels –
Highest was the Acropolis
Parthenon – Temple dedicated to Goddess Athena in Athens

4. Parthenon – Goddess Athena

5. A new era of "radical democracy"
"the ideal type of the perfect statesman in ancient Greece”
Pericles followed a populist policy in order to gain power

6. A new era of "radical democracy"
Paid for entertainment of the poor
- the state covering cost
Lowered the property requirement for voting
Paid high wages to citizens who served on Juries

7. A new era of "radical democracy"
He limited Athenian citizenship to those of Athenian parentage on both sides
Such measures impelled Pericles' critics to regard him as responsible for the gradual degeneration
of the Athenian democracy.

8. Arts – Encouraged the Arts
represented the height of human development.

9. Athletics – Encouraged the development of the Olympics
They were already over 300 years old

10. The perfect body idealized
Sculpture
The perfect body idealized
gods, goddesses, athletes, and famous men were depicted as perfect

11. Doric
Ionic
Architecture
Corinthian

12. Architecture Pericles rebuilt the Parthenon Beautifying the city of Athens

13. WOMEN IN ATHENS No political life Role was in religion
Managed households
Rarely seen in public

14. Herodotus History the “Father of History”
He taught the importance of research
Telling both sides of the story
History

15. War between Athens and Sparta
Peloponnesian War
War between Athens and Sparta

16. War between Athens and Sparta
Peloponnesian War
War between Athens and Sparta
Sparta gets tired of Athens dominating region and forcing political will on other city states.
Athenian Imperialism

17. War between Athens and Sparta
Peloponnesian War
War between Athens and Sparta
Athens is wealthier and has a large navy
The war is fought on land and the Spartans win

18. War between Athens and Sparta
Peloponnesian War
War between Athens and Sparta
Spartans win…breaking up a semi-united Greece
Sets the scene for King Philip II of Macedonia
(Greek speaking country-cousins from the north)

19. Philosophers Many did not believe in the gods Lovers of wisdom
the nature of the Universe
Observation and Reason

20. “an unexamined life is not worth living”
Socrates
Asked people questions in the town square
made them examine their values and assumptions.
Socrates... sought to uncover errors in conventional views, and by the use of inductive argument - Came to be known as the Socratic Method of teaching
“an unexamined life is not worth living”

21. Socrates
Socrates did not conceal his contempt for some of the weaknesses of democracy
the principal fault of democracy was that it did not require special knowledge in its leaders
it treated the opinions of all citizens as equal in value.
unorthodox sentiments were viewed with alarm by the democrats, still politically insecure.

22. Socrates
He was put on trial for "impiety" (ungodliness or irreverence towards the Supreme Being and Corrupting the minds of the youth
What, in fact, caused his death was his rejection of the current democratic leadership. He was too bold in exposing their inconsistencies, and they wanted him out of the way.
500 people sat on the jury

23. Socrates Sarcastically commented at post-trial
“If the people say that I am guilty, then I must be…”
He did freely drink the poison hemlock in front of his students.

24. Plato Student of Socrates He rejected Democracy
because of the death of Socrates.
(it proved to him that the people do not have the ability to
think and reason on their own)
government should regulate all aspects of citizens’ lives… for their good

25. Plato
A Few Talented Women were fit to be leaders of the state

26. Plato 3 classes in society: philosopher-rulers Soldiers Workers
Wisest philosopher would be philosopher-king

27. Aristotle
Most famous student of Plato
Became the “Father of Logic”

28. Aristotle Most famous student of Plato Favored rule by a
single, strong, virtuous leader

29. Aristotle Most famous student of Plato Taught the “Golden Mean”
a moderate course between extremes of true democracy and Plato’s control by government.