Title: Regents Review Ancient Greece
1Final Regents Review GREECE
By Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley H.S.
Chappaqua, NY
2The Geography of Greece
3Archaic Greece 1650 BCE - 700 BCE
4Bronze Age Greece
5Crete Minoan Civilization(Palace at Knossos)
6Knossos Minoan Civilization
7Minoan Civilization
8The Mycenaean Civilization
9Homer The Heroic Age
10The Mask of Agamemnon
11"Hellenic" (Classical) Greece 700 BCE - 324 BCE
12ATHENS Yesterday Today
13Piraeus Athens Port City
14Early Athenian Lawgivers
- Draco
- draconian
- Solon
- Cleisthenes
- created the first democracy!
15Persian Wars 499 BCE 480 BCE
16Persian 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
17Golden Age of Pericles460 BCE 429 BCE
18Great Athenian Philosophers
- Socrates
- Know thyself!
- question everything
- only the pursuit of goodnessbrings happiness.
- Plato
- The Academy
- The world of the FORMS
- The Republic ? philosopher-king
19Great Athenian Philosophers
- Aristotle
- The Lyceum
- Golden Mean everything inmoderation.
- Logic.
- Scientific method.
20Athens The Arts Sciences
- DRAMA (tragedians)
- Aeschylus
- Sophocles
- Euripides
- THE SCIENCES
- Pythagoras
- Democritus ? all matter made up of
small atoms. - Hippocrates ? Father of Medicine
21Phidias Acropolis
22The Acropolis Today
23The Parthenon
24The Agora
25The Classical Greek Ideal
26Olympia
27The Ancient OlympicsAthletes Trainers
28Olympia Temple to Hera
29The 2004 Olympics
30SPARTA
31SPARTA
Helots ? Messenians enslaved by the
Spartans.
32Peloponnesian Wars
33Macedonia Under Philip II
34"Hellenistic" Greece 324 BCE - 100 BCE
35Alexander the Great
36Alexander the Greats Empire
37Alexander the Great in Persia
38The Hellenization of Asia
39Pergamum A Hellenistic City
40The Economy of the Hellenistic World
41Hellenistic Philosophers
- Cynics ? Diogenes
- ignore social conventions avoid luxuries.
- citizens of the world.
- live a humble, simple life.
- Epicurians ? Epicurus
- avoid pain seek pleasure.
- all excess leads to pain!
- politics should be avoided.
42Hellenistic Philosophers
- Stoics ? Zeno
- nature is the expansion of divine will.
- concept of natural law.
- get involved in politics, not for personal
gain, but toperform virtuous acts for the good
of all. - true happiness is found ingreat achievements.
43Hellenism 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!
44The Breakup of Alexanders Empire