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Ancient Greek Culture
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Ancient Greek Culture
Mount Olympus
Greek Gods
• Anthropomorphic
• Explain natural events
• Oracle at Delphi
Architecture
Greek Golden Mean
“Nothing in excess, everything in moderation
(proportion).”
The Parthenon
Replaced temple destroyed by Persians
The Parthenon
Architect: Iktinos Engineer: Phidias
Completed 431 BCE
228.6’ x 101.4’ : Entasis
Doric style
Acropolis: temple to Athena Parthenos “the Virgin”
Used to store tax records, as treasury for Delian League
•Athena 39’ high (pictured with Nike and snake: “renewal”)
•Made of wood plated with gold and ivory
•44 talents of gold = $12 million
Destruction of Parthenon
War against Turks, Venetians fired upon in 1687
Doric Ionic Corinthian
Sturdy, plain,
mainland Greece
Acanthus leaves,
Rome
Slender, scroll
design, used in
Eastern Greece
Greek Columns
Painting
Greek Pottery
Amphora Krater Lekythos
Sculpture
Winged Victory: Nike of Samothrace
Myron
The Discus Thrower
Phidias
Zeus
Temple at Olympia
Praxiteles
Hermes and the infant Dionysus
Venus de
Milo
Artemis of
Ephesus
Laocoon (160-20 BC)
Socrates469-399 BC
• Opposed the sophists
• Evil = ignorance
• Philosopher = lover of wisdom and truth
• Used Socratic inquiry
• “The unexamined life is not worth living”
• “Know thyself”
Plato 427-347 BC
• Academy in Athens
• Wrote Republic (ideal government, jobs suited to talents)
• Demos: stay in their place
Aristotle384-322 BC
• Student of Plato
• Organized
information into
“systems” (ex.
biology, zoology)
• Believed strong
middle class = strong
democracy
Math & Science
Pythagoras“father of numbers”
Archimedesinvented the lever
Hippocrates“the father of medicine”
Hippocratic Oath: “The physician shall do no harm.”
Aristarchas“heliocentric model of the
universe
Euclid“father of geometry”
HistoryHerodotus
“father of history”
Thucydides
“history repeats itself”
The Greek Stage
Greek chorus
Amphitheatre Greek masks
Aeschylus
• “Founder of
tragedy
• Wrote about great
heroes
• Agamemnon
Sophocles
• Wrote about traditional Greek values
• Oedipus trilogy
Euripides
• Wrote one of first anti-war works: The Trojan Women
Aristophanes
• Writer of comedy
• Sarcastic, biting satire
• Made fun of rich and famous
• For example: Clouds (about Socrates)
