Religion, Philosophy, and the Arts

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Religion, Philosophy, and the Arts

• Ch 11 Sec 3-4

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Key Terms

• Define polytheism, mythology, hypothesis,
  Hippocratic Oath

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The Golden Age of Athens

• 478-431 BC
• Athens grew rich from trade and silver mining
• Athens collected a tribute which added to its
  wealth
• Pericles was the most powerful man in politics
  and supported democracy
• He issued many reforms

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Religious Beliefs

• Worshipped the 12 Olympians
• Built temples to the Gods which had human forms
  and human characteristics, but they were immortal
• These gods and goddesses lived on Mount Olympus
• Also honored lesser gods and mythical heroes
• Brainpop Gods and goddesses with handout

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Some Gods and Goddesses
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Religious Beliefs

• People of Greece looked to their gods/goddesses
  for advice.
• They visited oracles located throughout Greece
• The advice would be received through dreams or
  riddles

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The Search for Knowledge

• Thales one of the first philosophers everything
  made up of water
• Democritus everything made up of atoms

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Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

• Socrates spoke
• of goodness and
• wisdom
• He challenged
• beliefs and was brought
• to trial where he was
• accused of dishonoring
• the gods and sentenced to death
• Plato student of Socrates
• Wrote The Republic which spoke of society
• Aristotle student of Plato
• Reason should guide pursuit of knowledge

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The Parthenon

• A temple to Athena, made of marble, ivory, and
  gold
• Built on the new acropolis
• The statue of Athena disappeared long ago, but
  the depicted
• scenes still remain
• These scenes show
• Greek art

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Dramas

• The Greeks wrote the 1st plays
• Many of these plays were tragedies
• Euripides, Aeschylus, and Sophocles were famous
  tragedy writers

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Comedies

• Competed with tragedies
• The comedies made fun of citizens
• Aristophanes is the most famous
• Section handout
• Look deeply at section 4 (Ch 11)
• Greek god/goddess project