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Do Now. Is it better to stand on principal and fight enemies alone or create truces with foes to fight larger threats?. The Age of Pericles (461 – 429 BCE). Direct Democracy People participate directly in gov’t decision making through mass meetings. Ostracism

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  1. Do Now Is it better to stand on principal and fight enemies alone or create truces with foes to fight larger threats?

  2. The Age of Pericles(461 – 429 BCE) • Direct Democracy • People participate directly in gov’t decision making through mass meetings. • Ostracism • Politician banned from the city for 10 years if considered harmful to the city by 6,000 citizens.

  3. The Great Peloponnesian War • Defeated Persians in 479 and fought each other in 431 BCE. • Sparta lays siege to Athens and a plague killed 1/3 of Athens. • Fought over 25 years with Athens surrendering after a naval defeat. • All sides weakened!

  4. Greek Religion & Enlightenment • 12 chief gods & goddesses lived on Mt. Olympus. • Zeus, Athena, Apollo, Ares, Aphrodite, Poseidon. • Worshiped gods through rituals at Delphi. • Oracles (Croesus) • Learn will of the gods. • Outdoor theaters were tragedies were acted out. • Sophocles wrote “Oedipus Rex” • Herodotus • History of the Persian Wars • Thucydides • Greatest historian of the ancient world.

  5. Comparing Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle • Authors • Believed knowledge derived from • senses is incomplete • Estab. school Plato (2) Aristotle (3) Scientific rather than spiritual Aristotle & Plato have these in common Estab. school, the Academy Estab. sch., the Lyceum Socrates (1) • Greek philosopher (thinker) • Interested in physical and metaphysical • Preceded by “schools of thought” d. Age 81 Wrote The Republic) All 3 have these in common Goal: to challenge the Sophists Committed suicide (399 B.C.) Belief: “Man can attain absolute truth” (Positive view of mankind) Socratic method Plato’s teacher

  6. Alexander the Great • Greeks defeated by Macedonian Phillip II. • Phillip’s son was Alexander. • Alexander creates the world’s largest empire to this point. • Lasting legacy: • Architecture, Literature, Science, Philosophy

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