Ancient Greece

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Ancient Greece

• 2008

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Corinthian
Doric
Ionic
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• The Parthenon is a Doric temple, which artfully
  incorporated selected Ionic features to produce a
  building that many, including some of the world's
  top architects, have called perfect. The Doric
  style uses thicker columns and has a more massive
  appearance, sometimes called masculine, than the
  Ionic, feminine, style. This may have been a
  politically inspired choice by Pericles,
  symbolically uniting Greeks of Dorian and Ionian
  backgrounds in one transcendent building.

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Athena Wisdom
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Nike Victory
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Sentenced to death by drinking hemlock. Charge
corrupting the youth of Athens. When After
the loss to Sparta, he questioned some of the
rulers and these questions were annoying. Rather
than answer the questions, they silenced Socrates.
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The Odyssey
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The Iliad
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A Great Thinker???

• The male is by nature superior and the female
  inferiorthe one rules and the other is
  ruled.                                   
          -ARISTOTLE

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Spartan Children

• 1. At the age of seven the Spartan child left
  home to enter the military where he would stay
  until he was sixty.

• 2. The Spartan student developed only basic
  skills in reading and writing. The emphasis was
  on how to endure hardship, overcome obstacles and
  fend for himself in hostile territory.

• 3. Spartan youth went barefoot, they wore a
  single cloak in all kinds of weather and they
  were fed sparingly

• 4. They were encouraged to supplement their
  rations by stealing food and then whipped if they
  were caught in the process.

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Athenian Children

• 1. The father decided whether his new born son
  should be allowed to live or whether he should
  simply be abandoned, put outside in a clay pot
  that would serve as his coffin.

• 2. If he was kept, and most boys were except in
  times of siege or great economic hardship, he was
  given a name and became a part of the community.

• 3. From that point on the father had no right to
  get rid of the baby. Newborn girls did not fare
  as well, ancient sources noting that a great
  number' were exposed and left to die.

• 4. The father also decided how the child would be
  raised and educated, some favoring home schooling
  and others bringing in tutors to educate them.
  Alexander, the Great's father King Philip brought
  in Aristotle to serve as teacher and mentor to
  the young Alexander. Children grew up playing
  with a variety of toys and pets.

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Athenian Children

• 5. Formal education covered reading, writing and
  arithmetic, as well as physical education and
  music. For the ancient Greeks, music was
  considered to have great importance in a proper
  education.

• 6. The works of Homer were an important part of
  the course of studies serving an a source of
  inspiration for lessons dealing with matters of a
  moral or religious nature. Homer was perceived as
  a guide for a proper life

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Athenian Children-3

• By the age of eighteen the young Athenian was
  ready for military service. Prior to this, from
  roughly the age of twelve, he would have had
  considerable exposure to physical training
  participating in a range of activities- running,
  wrestling, jumping, discus and javelin. Of course
  many of the skills learned in these sporting
  endeavors would prove to be useful in time of
  war.

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Greek Civilization-BCE

• 6000-3000.Neolithic
• 3000-2100.Early Bronze Age
• 2100-1600.Middle Bronze Age
• 1600-1150.Late Bronze Age
• 1150-750The Dark Age
• 750-490..Archaic Period
• 490-323..Classical Period
• 323-30Hellenistic