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Greek Philosophy & Science

Greek Philosophy & Science. Unit 1, Chapter 4. Archaic Greece: 800 - 480 BCE. Formative phase Phoenicians alphabet. The Acropolis Today. The Agora. Archaic Philosophy. Focus on Individual Humanism Lyric poetry Pre-Socratic philosophers Logographers. "Hellenic" (Classical)

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Greek Philosophy & Science

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  1. Greek Philosophy & Science Unit 1, Chapter 4

  2. Archaic Greece: 800 - 480 BCE • Formative phase • Phoenicians • alphabet

  3. The Acropolis Today

  4. The Agora

  5. Archaic Philosophy • Focus on Individual • Humanism • Lyric poetry • Pre-Socratic philosophers • Logographers

  6. "Hellenic" (Classical) Greece: 480 - 323 BCE • Success of Greece against Persia • Death of Alexander the Great • orality to literacy

  7. Persian Wars: 499 BCE – 480 BCE

  8. ATHENS: Yesterday & Today

  9. Golden “Age of Pericles”:460 BCE – 429 BCE

  10. Democracy? • Free, adult males of Athenian ancestry • 10 – 15 % of population • Slavery • Limited rights of women

  11. Great Athenian Philosophers • Socrates • Know thyself! • question everything • only the pursuit of goodnessbrings happiness • Plato • The Academy • dialogues • The Republic

  12. Great Athenian Philosophers • Aristotle • tutor of Alexander the Great • The Lyceum • “Golden Mean” • scientific method

  13. The Classical Greek “Ideal”

  14. Olympia

  15. The Ancient Olympics:Athletes & Trainers

  16. "Hellenistic" Greece: 323 - 30 BCE • Hellenized or under Greek influence

  17. The Hellenization of Asia

  18. Hellenism: The Arts & Sciences • Scientists / Mathematicians: • Aristarchus  heliocentric theory • Euclid  geometry • Archimedes  pulley • Hellenistic Art: • More realistic; less ideal than Hellenic art • Showed individual emotions, wrinkles, and age!

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