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Classical Civilizations in the Mediterranean: Greece and Rome. By: Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley H.S. Chappaqua, NY Reorganized and edited by Bobbie Clark. The Geography of Greece. The Geography of Rome. Archaic Greece: 1650 BCE - 700 BCE. Bronze Age Greece.
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Classical Civilizations in the Mediterranean: Greece and Rome By: Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley H.S. Chappaqua, NY Reorganized and edited by Bobbie Clark
Archaic Greece: 1650 BCE - 700 BCE
The History of Ancient Italy
Influence of the Etruscans • Writing • Religion • The Arch
"Hellenic" (Classical) Greece: 700 BCE - 324 BCE
Early Athenian Lawgivers • Draco • “draconian” • Solon • Cleisthenes • created the first democracy!
Persian Wars: Famous Battles • Marathon (490 BCE) • 26 miles from Athens • Thermopylae (480 BCE) • 300 Spartans at the Mountain pass • Salamis (480 BCE) • Athenian navy victorious
Great Athenian Philosophers • Socrates • Know thyself! • question everything • only the pursuit of goodnessbrings happiness. • Plato • The Academy • The world of the FORMS • The Republic philosopher-king
Great Athenian Philosophers • Aristotle • The Lyceum • “Golden Mean” [everything inmoderation]. • Logic. • Scientific method.
Athens: The Arts & Sciences • DRAMA (tragedians): • Aeschylus • Sophocles • Euripides • THE SCIENCES: • Pythagoras • Democritus all matter made up of small atoms. • Hippocrates “Father of Medicine”
SPARTA Helots Messenians enslaved by the Spartans.
The Roman Republic: 509 BCE - 27 BCE
Republican Government 2 Consuls (Rulers of Rome) Senate (Representative body for patricians) Tribal Assembly (Representative body for plebeians)
The Twelve Tables, 450 BCE • Providing political and socialrights for the plebeians.