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ArchaicArchaic
Classical Classical
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Hellenistic Hellenistic GreeceGreece
From early beginnings to long lasting legacy• Indo-Europeans move into region conflict and geography creates separate city-states joined by a common culture (language, religion and heritage)
• Join together in leagues during the Golden Age
• Culture spread by Alexander the Great during Hellenistic Era
• Eventually absorbed into the Roman Empire
Greeks came together at the Olympics
Greeks came together at the Olympics
Eras in Development of Greek Civilization• Minoan Civilization-
• 2000-1400BC flourished on Island of Crete.Great trading power.. • Myceneans (Achaeans)- 2000 BC I
• nvaded Greece from the north. They built on the achievements of the Minoans. • Around 1250 BC they banded together under the leadership of the king of Mycenae to
attack troy, a rival power. Troy controlled trading routes between the Aegean and Black seas. This war is told in Homers Iliad and the Odyssey. Composed about 750 BC According to Iliad Paris, a Trojan prince kidnaped Helen wife of the King of Sparta. The Spartan King and his brother Agamemnon, of Mycenae involved all of Greece in the effort to rescue Helen. After ten years of war Troy destroyed and drove the Trojans into exile. Heinrich Schliemann excavated a site in northwestern Asia Minor which is accepted as the ancient city of Troy. Found nine cities had been built at different times on the same spot. charred wood and destruction convinced him that this was the layer of Troy.
• Dorians came down from the north. • Settled further to the south on the Pelopennisus Peninsula. Conquered many of
the regions occupied by the Myceneans. The art of writing was lost during this time. This period is called the “Dark Age”
• Age of the City States• Small city states or monarchies formed instead of a great empire. Golden Age of
Greece• Delian League - Persian and Peloponesian Wars create a new era of differing
alliances in the Aegean Sea. Trade provided wealth and some stablity. Also known as Classical Greece.
• Hellenistic Greece • Persian occupation after the conquest of Greece by the Macedonian, Alexander
the Great. Greek civilization spread throughout the world but mixed with other civilizations and changed.
• Roman - Greco Civilization• Roman occupation after the conquest of Greece by the Romans.
Crete: Minoan Civilization
(Palace at Knossos)
Crete: Minoan Civilization
(Palace at Knossos)
Minoan Civilization
Minoan Civilization
Fresco – bull leaping
Knossos: Minoan Civilization
Knossos: Minoan Civilization
The Mask of AgamemnonThe Mask of Agamemnon
The Mycenaean Civilization
The Mycenaean Civilization
Geographic Influences
• Many islands in the Aegean Sea were close together.• This made trade and cultural exchange easier.
• Short mountain ranges divided the country.• They prevented the development of a sense of
Greek unity.• The Greeks could not produce enough food
for their own needs.• They had to become traders.
• The long coastline brought every part of the mainland close to the sea.• Greeks became fishermen, sailors and traders.
Homer:
The “Heroic
/Homeric Age”
Dark Age
Homer:
The “Heroic
/Homeric Age”
Dark Age
Bronze Age GreeceBronze Age Greece
Greek City States
Hellos
Greece changes Geographically
Characteristics of all Greek city states
• Small Size• Small population• An original polis (acropolis or high up
place)• A public meeting place called an agora
• This is how we identified whether or not it was a “Greek” city state.
Factors that brought them together and Factors that kept them apart
• Common Language, Religion, and festivals
• Co-operative supervision of certain temples
• Belief that the Greeks were descended from the same ancestors
• Rugged Mountains separating the valleys
• Rivalries between city-states
• separate legal systems
• independent calendars, money, weights and measures
• Fierce spirit of independence
Greek Philosophy• Popular government - is the idea
that people could and should rule themselves rather than be ruled by others.
• This is the foundation of Greek Democracy but is not really a type of government.
• It is more of a philosophy
Greek Systems of Government• Monarchy- is a government by a royal family-in
ancient Greece a King. established a dynasty.• Autocracy- (rule by one person who has total control over
all others)
• Aristocracy- (government ruled by the wealthy or upper class) was comprised of the nobility, or landowning class that ruled the city-state.
• Oligarchy - absolute rule by a few• Tyranny - (Tyrant) seized power, gaining popular
support by promising to defend the poor from the aristocracy.
• Democracy- the council of citizens helped form laws and limited the power of rulers.
• Theocracy- government in which the clergy rules or in which a “god” is the civil ruler.
Geographic and historical influences in the development of Greek city states
• Sparta was located on the Peloponnesus Peninsula, an area that was good for growing grain but did not provide the protection of an acropolis.
• The ruling class of citizens of Sparta was small in numbers compared with the slaves, or helots.
• Due in part to a constant fear of outside invaders and of inside slave revolts, the Spartan aristocracy empathized military strength and uniformity.
• The government controlled all phases of life for both citizens and slaves.
• By doing so, art, literature, philosophy, and science were present only as they supported the military and only in a practical nature. Military might, as shown by strength, courage, endurance, and cleverness, along with devotion to Sparta were the most important values.
• Individual freedoms were sacrificed.
4 Reformers/Tyrants
• Draco• Solon• Pisistratus• Cleisthenes
Evolution of the system to a democracy• Draco
• Wrote harsh code of laws
• Solon• Canceled debts of the poor• Set up a court of appeals for citizens• Stopped debt slavery
• CLEISTHENES • Determined that all male citizens over age 20 could
be in the Assembly• Set up the Council of 500
• PISISTRATUS• Created a following among lower classes • Exiled nobles who disagreed with his policies
Athenian Government
• In early times ruled by kings• Later, the aristocracy, selected
representatives called archons• Merchants later replaced some of the
nobility• Finally, the four reformers (tyrannts)
and we have Periclean democracy
Spartan social stratification
• Privileged rules class – spartiates• About 10% of population• Descendants of Dorian invaders
• Small landholders, tradesmen, artisans – perioeci• Native prior to Dorian invasion• Enjoyed rights of citizenship only in their own home
communities• Between 10 – 15 % of population
• Attached to the soil and provide auxiliary military service – helots• Could become citizens and enter the perioeci class for
military bravery
• Slaves
Spartan Government
• First the Council of Old which had to have approval of the popular assembly of spartiates over 30 years of age
• Later, 5 ephors ruled
Athenian social classes
• Nobility• Merchants, Artisans• Peasant• Slaves – common Athenian practice to
free their slaves• Metics – foreigners allowed to live in
Athens but could not become citizens
Citizen Rightsa) access to courts b) no enslavement (but the very creation
of citizen class makes the distinction that other people are slaves - that's what makes citizenship a privilege)
c) religious and cultural participation d) death penalty was rare e) becoming a citizen was nearly
impossible f) citizen duties - taxes, military service
Characteristics of Greek Art(mostly Athenian)• Expressed ideals of
harmony, balance, order and moderation.
• Glorified humans
• Combined beauty and usefulness
• Symbolized pride of people in their city-states
Golden Mean
•Nothing in excess, everything in moderation
Architecture
• Doric• Corinthian• Ionic
Architecture
• Doric• Corinthian• Ionic
Architecture
• Doric• Corinthian• Ionic
Red Figure Style
Black Figure Style
Practical but beautiful
Hellenic to Hellenistic Era
• Greece has an archaic era • Minoans• Myceneans• Dorians
• Age of the City-states• Greek – Persian Wars bring them together under
Athenian rule to defeat the Persians
• Golden Age of Greece• Hellenistic Era
• Greek values and way of life spread by Alexander the Great
Greeks become teachers of me• Great Philosophers (SPA)
• Socrates• Plato• Aristotle
• Greece absorbed into the Roman Empire and the Greeks teach the Romans
• Later the de Medici’s of Florence rediscover the teachings and treasures of the Greeks and use them to form modern Europe
ATHENSATHENS
Golden Age
Today
Piraeus: Athens’ Port City
Piraeus: Athens’ Port City
Persian Wars:499 BCE – 480 BCE
Persian Wars:499 BCE – 480 BCE
Persian WarsPersian Wars• Marathon (490 BCE)
- 26 miles from Athens
• Thermopylae (480 BCE)- 300 Spartans at the mountain pass
• Salamis (480 BCE)- Athenian navy victorious
Golden “Age of Pericles”:460 BCE – 429 BCE
Golden “Age of Pericles”:460 BCE – 429 BCE
Great Athenian Philosophers
Great Athenian Philosophers• Socrates
- Know thyself! - question everything - only the pursuit of goodness brings happiness.
• Plato - The Academy - the world of the FORMS - The Republic philosopher-king
• Aristotle - the Lyceum - “Golden Mean” [everything in moderation] - Logic - Scientific method.
Socrates (470BCE-399 BCE)
• He wrote nothing, but was a skilled debater.
• He opposed the moral relativism and skepticism of many of the sophists.
• He used the method of rational debate to seek essential definitions of truth, beauty, justice, goodness, and virtue.
• The oracle at Delphi pronounced him the wisest of all.
• He was executed by his fellow Athenians for impiety and for corrupting the young.
Plato• The Allegory of the Cave & The Republic• There is a higher world of eternal, unchanging Forms that has always existed. • These Forms make up reality and only a trained
mind can understand them. • What we see is but a reflection of that reality, a
shadow of the true Form. • Government works best when divided into three
groups. • At the top are philosopher-kings who must rule
with wisdom and inspiration. • Warriors encompass the second group, and the
third includes everyone else. • Finally, men and women should have equal access
to positions.
Athens: The Arts & SciencesAthens: The Arts & Sciences
• DRAMA (tragedians):- Aeschylus- Sophocles- Euripides
• THE SCIENCES:- Pythagoras
• - Democritus all matter made up of small atoms. - Hippocrates “Father of Medicine”
AcropolisAcropolis
The Acropolis TodayThe Acropolis Today
The ParthenonThe Parthenon
The AgoraThe Agora
The Classical Greek “Ideal”
The Classical Greek “Ideal”
SPARTASPARTA
Delian and Archeon Leagues
• 499 BCE beginning of Persian wars which lasted throughout the 5th century resulting in a unification of the Greek city states under first Athenian hegemony • The predominant influence, as of a state,
region, or group, over another or others. • then under Sparta influence finally
ending with the defeat of both and Thebes controlling before the ascension of Macedonia throughout the Agean Sea
Peloponnesian WarsPeloponnesian Wars
Macedonia Under Philip II
Macedonia Under Philip II
Alexander the GreatAlexander the Great
Alexander the Great’s Empire
Alexander the Great’s Empire
Alexander the Great in Persia
Alexander the Great in Persia
The Hellenization of Asia
The Hellenization of Asia
Pergamum: A Hellenistic City
Pergamum: A Hellenistic City
Economy of the Hellenistic World
Economy of the Hellenistic World
Hellenistic PhilosophersHellenistic
Philosophers• Cynics Diogenes - ignore social conventions & avoid luxuries. - citizens of the world. - live a humble, simple life.
• Epicurians Epicurus - avoid pain & seek pleasure. - all excess leads to pain! - politics should be avoided.
Hellenistic PhilosophersHellenistic
Philosophers• Stoics Zeno - nature is the expansion of divine will. - concept of natural law. - get involved in politics, not for personal gain, but to perform virtuous acts for the good of all. - true happiness is found in great achievements.
Hellenism: Arts & Sciences
Hellenism: 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
Division of Alexander’s Empire
Division of Alexander’s Empire