2. Greece  Evaluate the Greek culture, what influence on modern life did it have?

3. The Geography of Greece

4. Impact of Geography  Many City-States or “ Polis ”  Why?  A major city and it ’ s countryside  Independent  Shared cultural and religious focus  Citizens with and without political rights and non-citizens

6. Bronze Age Greece

7. Mycenae: The first City-State  Flourished: 1600-1100BCE  Warrior people: prided themselves on heroic deeds in battle  Most famous military adventures in Homer ’ s Epics  Extensive commercial network

8. The Mycenaean Civilization

9. Homer: The “ Heroic Age ”

10. The Mask of Agamemnon

12. Persian Wars: 499 BCE – 480 BCE

13. Persian Wars: Famous Battles  Marathon (490 BCE)  26 miles from Athens  Thermopylae (480 BCE)  300 Spartans at the Mountain pass  Salamis (480 BCE)  Athenian navy victorious

14. Peloponnesian Wars

15. Golden “ Age of Pericles ” : 460 BCE – 429 BCE

16. Architecture and Design  Acropolis had two distinct levels  The high city had marble temples dedicated to gods  The city below was surrounded by walls and contained :  Markets,Theatres and Houses

17. Acropolis

18. The Acropolis Today

19. The Parthenon

20. The Agora

21. Cultural acheivements

22. Athens: The Arts & Sciences  DRAMA (tragedians):  Aeschylus  Sophocles  Euripides  THE SCIENCES:  Pythagoras  Democritus  all matter made up of small atoms.  Hippocrates  “Father of Medicine”

23. Hellenism: The Arts & Sciences  Scientists / Mathematicians:  Aristarchus  heliocentric theory.  Euclid  geometry  Archimedes  pulley  Hellenistic Art:  More realistic; less ideal than Hellenic art.  Showed individual emotions, wrinkles, and age!

24. The Classical Greek “ Ideal ”

25. Olympia

27. Alexander the Great

28. Alexander the Great ’ s Empire

29. Alexander the Great in Persia

30. The Economy of the Hellenistic World