1. The Academy: Class Activity McCluskey
Ancient Greece
The Academy:
Class Activity
McCluskey

2. Monday, December 5th Organizer #2 check (10 pt)
THE ACADEMY: Class Activity and Notes, 10 pt daily grade
HW: Organizer #3

3. Wednesday, Dec. 7th Organizer #3 check
Review: Greece, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
Plato: The Cave video (3 min)
Finish Philosophers
ROME: timeline, notes: Power
HW: Study for Map Quiz! (30 pt, word bank provided)
GS 10: Annotated Bibliography

4. The Academy
Actors: Herodotus (teacher) Group 1: Socrates Group 2: Plato Group 3: Aristotle Group 4: Antisthenes and Diogenes Aristippus Group 5: Pyrrho Zeno Epicurus

5. The Format:
Each group will study the basic biography, beliefs, and possible writing excerpt of its assigned philosopher and give a brief presentation to the rest of the “Academy” in which all sections of the given outline can be filled out by your “students.”
Evaluation: 10 point daily grade
5 Pts: thoroughness and accuracy of content
5 Pts: clarity and authenticity of presentation

6. Herodotus: Must use evidence Analyze why (human behavior)
“Ancient Greece was a powerful civilization under the leadership of Athens that left a lasting legacy on Western culture”?

7. “Ancient” 3000 BCE= earliest (Minoan, Mycanean)
2000 BCE = Greek Speaking, Acheans
“Trojan War”, c BCE
“Dark Ages”
BCE = “Hellenic Greece”
Persian Wars (c. 500 BCE)
Battle of Marathon
Battle of Salamis
“Golden Age” = ( BCE) under Pericles
Pelopponesian Wars ( BCE): Athens loses to Sparta and Pelop. League
Philip II, Alexander the Great = Empire ( BCE)
Hellenistic Greece
Rome!!

8. “Greece”

9. “Greece” N: Macedonia S: Peloponnesus Islands, incl. Crete Mts.
No rivers
25% arable
POLIS: “city-state” (highest pt = acropolis)
Location: close to everything (trade, Egypt, Persian, Rome)

10. “Powerful” Phalanx= foot soldiers Defeated Persian Empire
Athens: Marathon (“Nike”) (against Darius)
Sparta: Salamis (movie “300”) (against Xerxes)

11. “Civilization”
Definition of “Civilization”: highly advanced state of human society in which a high level of art, science, religion, and government has been achieved.

12. “Advanced State of Human Society”
ART: idealized (vs. Roman = realistic)
Sculpture
Architecture (columns)
SCIENCE
RELIGION
Mythology
Drama (Comedy, Tragedy)

13. Civ’n: “High level of govt:”
Democracy:
Draco: Law
Solon: Popular Reforms
Cleisthenes: Athenian Assembly
Pericles: Direct Democracy
Polis: organized around city-state
All citizens could vote (citizen?)

14. “Under the leadership of Athens”: Sparta may have won the Pelopponesian wars, but
Mind + body
Curiosity, free discussion
Military (too many slaves)
“Spartan life” – strict, brutal discipline
“Laconic” answers
Little art or lit.
“Best fighters in the world”

15. “Under Athens” Delian League
YES NO
Delian League
Peloponnesian League – Athens loses empire by 404 BCE
Philip II of Macedonia and son, Alexander the Great = empire ( BCE)
Greece + Egypt + Persia = “Hellenistic culture”
Science! Astronomy!

16. That left a lasting legacy….
I will defer to Socrates’ method of teaching in this instance…..my peers?

17. “Greece has conquered the conqueror”
Legacy….
“Greece has conquered the conqueror”
Alexander the Great?
Rome?

18. Perhaps greatest legacies = Philosophers
“Philos” = love
“Soph” = knowledge/learning