Greek Achievements

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Greek Achievements
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Reading Focus for Ch. 5.3

• How did Greek philosophy influence later
  thinking?
• What types of literature did the Greeks create?
• What were the aims of Greek art and architecture?

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Philosophers

• Meaning lovers of wisdom
• 1. The universe is put together in an orderly way
  and subject to absolute and unchanging laws
• 2. People can understand these laws through logic
  and reason
• Pg. 143- read the Greek Philosophy section on
  Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

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Trojan War

• 1200 B.C.
• Mycenaean kings fought 10 yr. war against Troy
• Trojan youth had kidnapped Helen, wife of Greek
  king war
• Heinrich Schliemann-
• find remains of 9 layers of city life dates to
  time period
• Manfred Korfmann-
• Trojan War was a struggle for control of a
  crucial waterway in the Aegean Sea

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Homer

• Greek blind storyteller
• epics- narrative poems celebrating heroic deeds
• The Iliad and The Odyssey
• Trojan War is backdrop
• Iliad- Achilles (think movie Troy with Pitt)
• arete- heroic ideal of virtue and excellence
• Odyssey- Odysseus defeat of Trojans (set after
  Trojan War)

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3 Goals for Athens

• 1. Direct Democracy
• 2. Strengthens the Navy
• 3. Beautifies Athens

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Venus de Milo

• Also "Aphrodite" of Melos
• beautiful marble statue
• exhibited in the Louvre, Paris.
• Nothing is known of its sculptor
• 200 and 100 BC.

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Greek Styles of Art

• Classical Art
• values of order, balance, and proportion
• faces show serenity (not laughter or anger)
• capture the grace of the human body in motion

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Greek Drama

• Civic pride and tribute to the gods
• Tragedy
• hero has a flaw which causes his/her downfall
• Apply this to Achilles
• Comedy
• satires works that poked fun at a subject

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Group Activity

• Imagine creating a
• Make a list of items/ideas you would feature as
  the most important contributions. Explain why
  they are the most important.

Museum of Greek Influences on Modern Life