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Greece

Greece. Essential Questions. What motivated the Greeks and why? What factors did geography and environment play in the Greeks’ attitudes towards life? How is Greek civilization and government related to ours today?. Geography. Peloponnesus Crete Minoans Mycenaeans Troy. Minoans.

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Greece

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  1. Greece

  2. Essential Questions • What motivated the Greeks and why? • What factors did geography and environment play in the Greeks’ attitudes towards life? • How is Greek civilization and government related to ours today?

  3. Geography • Peloponnesus • Crete • Minoans • Mycenaeans • Troy

  4. Minoans • 2800 B.C. (2000-1450 B.C. flourished) • Knossos (King’s palace) • Discovered by Arthur Evans • Brightly colored rooms with wall art • Workshops for making vases, ivory figurines, and jewelry • Bathrooms with drains • Traders and Sailors • Peaceful

  5. Palace Complex

  6. Theseus and the Minotaur

  7. Disappearance • Sudden disappearance • Potential Causes? • Natural disaster? • Disease? • Moved away? • Invasion? • By whom?

  8. Mycenaeans • Mycenae located in Northeast Peloponnese • 1400-1200 B.C. (gone by 1100 B.C.) • Discovered by Heinrich Schliemann

  9. Mycenaeans cont. • Extensive commercial network (trading, sailing) • pottery found all over Mediterranean • Grave circles (Tholos) • Jars found in tombs

  10. Warriors • Murals depict hunting and fighting • Homer’s stories of military conquest • Troy

  11. Homer’s Works • Iliad • Odyssey

  12. Iliad • Story time! • Cast of characters • TrojansGreeks Paris Helen (Menelaus) Priam Agamemnon Hector Achilles Patroclus

  13. Themes…or so what? • Wrath and pride of Achilles (hubris) • Heroes • Valor, excellence (arete) • Weakness and vulnerability

  14. Odyssey • Story time! • Odysseus • Penelope • Lotus Eaters • Polyphemus • Laestrygonians (cannibals) • Circe • Hades • Sirens • Scylla and Charybdis • Cattle of Helios • Calypso

  15. Themes and stuff • Example of arete • Greek ideals: wisdom, cunning, bravery • Xenia (hospitality)

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