The Legacy of Ancient Greece and Rome  

Legacy of Greece

•Natural Laws- use of reason and intelligence to discover

•Democracy

•Architecture and Art▫The Parthenon and Acropolis▫Orders – Ionic, Doric, Corinthean ▫Kouros Sculpture

Greek Philosophers Use Reason

•1. The universe is put together in an orderly way and is subject to absolute and changing laws

•2. People can understand these laws through logic and reason

•SPA▫Socrates- Socratic Method▫Plato- The Republic; rule by philosopher-

kings▫Aristotle- Politics; mathematics and law

Plato•Socrates’s pupil•Plato’s Republic a Socratic

dialogue was written around 380B.C.▫It questions what justice is as

well as defining systems of community

▫Republic is primarily about a utopia – an ideal world – where philosophers reign as kings The Giver definitely was

inspired by Republic

Rome’s developments

The Republic▫Dictator- times of crisis (Pompey or Julius

Caesar)▫Two Consuls▫Senate and Two Assemblies

•Inventions▫Aqueducts/plumbing, innovative

architecture and roadwork, military techniques/strategies

Ovid•43 B.C. - 17A.D.•Roman poet

▫Struggles with Caesar Augustus Exile over (most likely) lewd love poems

•Metamorphoses ▫Transformation of:

From nothing to something! Human/God’s bodies Via love or hubris or hate Characterization (for the worse) from the

Legacy of Rome

•Republic•Individual is a citizen in a state not a

subject•Written law code