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Journal Topic

Journal Topic. Essential Question:. What are the main focal points for studying the cultures and ancient Greece and Rome?. “The life which is unexamined is not worth living.” --Socrates. At Your Desks…. Copy Homework: Read and take notes on pp. 198-201

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Journal Topic

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  1. Journal Topic

  2. Essential Question: What are the main focal points for studying the cultures and ancient Greece and Rome?

  3. “The life which is unexamined is not worth living.” --Socrates

  4. At Your Desks… • Copy Homework: • Read and take notes on pp. 198-201 • Bring in 1st drafts on Thursday (with pencil, pen, highlighter) • Read and take notes on pp. 106-113

  5. Extra Credit Assignment • Read one of the following selections from the textbook and, in a 3 paragraph essay, discuss the speaker’s view of Greek culture and the Greek way of life • The Funeral Speech of Pericles (pp. 180-188) • from The Apology (pp. 190-195)

  6. The Heroic Age • (Mycenaean Era) • Legends of Greek mythology are “born” • King Minos • Agamemnon (Trojan War) • Development of early Greek culture

  7. The Epic Age • Iliad and Odyssey created • Greek alphabet developed (alpha – beta) • Beginnings of Greek arts

  8. Political Contributions • City States (“polis”) • Ex. Sparta and Athens • Ruled by a king • Separate but shared common cultural bond • Called themselves Hellenes (descendants of Hellen – ancestor of sole “flood” survivor – see The Deucalion, p. 64) • Shared common social and religious institutions • Olympic Games established

  9. Political Contributions (cont.) • Athens and Sparta • Sparta – militarism, conservative culture, oligarchy (power and rule in hands of a few) • living a Spartan lifestyle meant you were sternly self- disciplined, rigorous, required little comforts or luxuries • Athens – established democracy (rule by the people), emphasis on culture and comfort

  10. Political Contributions (cont.) • Pericles and the Golden Age • ruled Athens for 30 years • “stressed middle course between extremists” • patron of the arts, literature, philosophy • Built The Parthenon (temple of Athena)

  11. The Parthenon Ruins in Greece Reconstructed in Nashville

  12. The Parthenon

  13. Artistic Contributions • Lyric poetry • Brief, intensely personal, emotional • Poems often set to music (lyre) [performance art] • Monody – poetry for a single voice • Choral – poetry for many voices (chorus)

  14. Artistic Contributions (cont.) • Greek Drama • Athenian playwrights: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides • The Tragedy consider questions involving: • human suffering • free will • moral responsibility • limits of knowledge

  15. Contributions in Philosophy • Socrates (lover of wisdom) • the Socratic method • questioner explores the implications of another’s position in order to stimulate thinking/illuminate ideas

  16. Famous Quotes of Socrates • As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. Beware the barrenness of a busy life. • I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. • From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. • Let him that would move the world first move himself. • Wisdom begins in wonder.

  17. Contributions in Philosophy • Plato (student of Socrates) • Developed The Academy • (first institution of higher learning) The Grove of Plato

  18. Famous Quotes of Plato • Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly. • Courage is knowing what not to fear. For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories. • Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. • He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

  19. Contributions in Philosophy • Aristotle (Plato’s student) • Developed a comprehensive system of philosophy (included logic, morality, science, etc) • Wrote The Poetics, an analysis of the principles of tragedy

  20. Famous Quotes of Aristotle • We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. • You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. • I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. • At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

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