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Early Western Civilization Lecture #3

Early Western Civilization Lecture #3. Ancient Greece. Themes. Greeks developed the concept of humanism, which contributed the value of the individual. Greece exported much of its culture and had a long term intellectual legacy of empiricism, humanism, democracy and secularism. Knossos.

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Early Western Civilization Lecture #3

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  1. Early Western CivilizationLecture #3 Ancient Greece

  2. Themes • Greeks developed the concept of humanism, which contributed the value of the individual. • Greece exported much of its culture and had a long term intellectual legacy of empiricism, humanism, democracy and secularism.

  3. Knossos

  4. Linear A

  5. Linear B

  6. Hoplites

  7. Herodotus • When did Herodotus write The Histories? When did the Persian wars take place? • Herodotus is often cited with writing the first Greek history, rather than mythology? How was his writing different from mythology? • Why did the Persians attack Greece? • How did Herodotus portray the Persians? How did he portray the Greeks? Was he biased in his historical interpretation?

  8. Archilocus Well, what if some barbaric Thracian glories in the perfect shield I left under a bush? I was sorry to leave it--but I saved my skin. Does it matter? O hell, I'll buy a better one.

  9. Delian League

  10. Pericles

  11. Hippocrates • Who was Hippocrates and when did he live? What was the sacred disease? 2. Why did many Greeks believe this disease was sacred? How did they usually treat this disease? 3. What were Hippocrates arguments against categorizing this disease as “sacred?” What were his arguments against the usual treatment? 4. How did he come to his conclusions?

  12. Socrates

  13. Socrates • When did Plato record this speech? • What did the oracle of Delphi tell Socrates? What role did Socrates play in Athenian society as a response to the oracle? • What conclusions did he come to about wisdom? • Why was he arrested and executed? What was he trying to attain when he refused his stay of execution? • Why was virtue so important to Socrates?

  14. Plato

  15. Aristotle

  16. Thucydides

  17. Aspasia

  18. Philip of Macedon

  19. Alexander the Great

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