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Warm up

Warm up. Copy HW Please take out your connections packet The first presenter can get set up. Essential Question. How can societies use what they learned from the past?. Greek Mythology. Traditional stories about gods and goddesses Expressed religious beliefs

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Warm up

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  1. Warm up • Copy HW • Please take out your connections packet • The first presenter can get set up

  2. Essential Question • How can societies use what they learned from the past?

  3. Greek Mythology • Traditional stories about gods and goddesses • Expressed religious beliefs • Believed gods shaped their lives • Twelve most important gods lived on Mt. Olympus • Believed gods had special powers, but acted like humans

  4. Greek Rituals The Greeks followed rituals –a set of actions carried out in a fixed way Why would they follow rituals????? They hoped to gain the favor of the gods

  5. What does the future hold??? • Greeks visits oracles, or sacred shrines, where a priest or priestess spoke for the gods • Temple of Apollo at Delphi • Prophecy- prediction about the future

  6. POETRY AND FABLES • Taught the Greeks valuable lessons • Set an example Americans to follow • Shakespeare borrowed ideas from the Greeks

  7. Epics • Long stories about heroic deeds • Homer ~700 BC-two important epics • Iliad and the Odyssey • Courage and honor • Role models • Be your best • Loyalty • Looked upon as “real” history

  8. fables • Short tales that teach lessons… • Tortoise and the Hare • Sour Grapes • Wolf in sheep’s clothing

  9. Aesop • 550 BC • Slave • Animals acted like humans • Funny • Morals

  10. Greek Drama • Drama is a story told by actors who pretend to be characters in a story • Actors speak, show emotion, and imitate the actions of the characters they represent. • Comedy and tragedy

  11. Tragedy • People try to overcome difficulties, but fail • Unhappy ending • People struggle against fate • Showed people’s character flaws

  12. Comedy • Happy ending • Doesn’t have to be funny

  13. Famous Greek Writers • Sophocles-tragedies such as Oedipus Rex • Aeschylus- tragedies such as Oresteia • Euripides- wrote about more real life situations Aristophanes- comedies that made fun of scholars and politicians

  14. Greek Historians • The Greeks wrote the first “real” history in western civilization

  15. Herodotus • 1st to explain the past by studying events • Wrote the History of the Persian Wars • Separated fact from legend • “Father of History”

  16. Thucydides • Greatest historian of the ancient world • Wrote The History of the Peloponnesian War • Stress human actions, not the gods

  17. Sports • Olympics-776 B.C.E • Olympic flame came from a fire on the alter of Zeus • Pentathalon-5 events • Wars were stopped to compete

  18. Sports • Panathenaic Games: • Horse races, chariot races, and combat sports Pancratium: • men would punch kick and choke each other...even to the death!!!!!

  19. Closure • List three things you learned about Ancient Greece and how they can be useful to our world today!

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