1. The Rice of Ancient Greece
 The ancient Greeks
became the people who
contributed greatly to the
way we live today:
 Watching the Olympic
games
 Going to the theater
 Visiting modern public
buildings
 The concept of
democracy
The South side of the Parthenon

2. A time line
 776 BC The first Olympic  472-410 BC Greeks theatre
games thrives in Athens.
 About 750 BC Homer writes  462-429 BC Perikles is a popular
the epics “The Iliad” and “The leader at Athens
Odyssey”  432 BC The Parthenon is finished
 650-580 BC Corinth is ruled by being built
the tyrant Kypselos and then  431-404 BC War between Athens
his son Periander and Sparta (the Peloponnesian
 508 BC Democracy begins in war)
Athens  404 BC Sparta defeats Athens
 490-480 BC Greeks defeat  338 BC Philip, king of
Persian invaders at the battles Macedonia, takes control of
of Marathon and Salamis Greece
 By 450 BC Athens becomes a  336-323 BC Alexander the Great,
very powerful city and controls son of Philip, conquers most of
an empire the known world
 146 BC Rome conquers Greece.
It becomes part of the Roman e

3. The Aegean Area #1

4. Aegean Civilizations
A Mycenaean funeral mask known as
The Palace of Knossos “Mask of Agamemnon”

5. Poets and Heroes
Ulysses and the Sirens, Herbert James D.
Bust of Homer in the British Museum

6. A family of Deities
Aphrodite, was the
Goddess of love, beauty
and fertility
Dionysus
was the god
of wine, son
of Zeus.
Zeus, was the supreme god of
The Olympians

7. Important Festivals
Ruins of the training grounds at The five olympic rings, designed in 1913
Olympia

8. The Polis # 2
 The typical Polis
 Greek Colonies,trade and economy
Greek theater at Epidauros, a city-state
or Polis. The olive tree, one of the
basis of Greek agriculture

9. Political and Social Change
 Kings
 Aristocrats
 Farmers / day laborers / slaves
 Middle-class
 Merchants and artisans
 Tyrannies
 Oligarchy
 Democracy

10. Rivals # 3
Athenian helmet
Spartan officer

11. Athenian Democracy and
Education
Pericles, Athenian politician

12. War, Glory and Decline # 4
 PERSIAN WARS  THE GOLDEN AGE OF
* Marathon ATHENS
* Salamis • Pericles in charge
• Athenian Daily Life
• Athenian Women
The Peloponnesian War
•The Athenian Empire
•The Conflict
•Effects of the War

13. Quest for Beauty and Meaning
 Building for the Gods
 Greek Arts
• Painting on vases
• Sculpturing the
The Acropolis in Athens
Human Body
• Drama and Theater
THE OLYMPIC GAMES
Samotracia

14. The Greek Mind # 5
 The Sophists
 Socrates
 Plato
 Aristotle Socrates
• Aristotle and science
• Aristotle and government
• Writers of History
+ Herodotus
+ Thucydides
Aristotle

15. The first Scientists
 Greek Mathematicians
• Tales
• Pythagoras
 Greek Medicine
• Hippocrates
Hippocrates

16. Alexander’s Empire
 Rise of Macedonia
 Alexander’s
Conquests Silver coin of Alexander the great
• Conflict with Persia
• Final Campaigns
• Imperial Goals
Divided Domain

17. Hellenistic Culture
 City Life
 Hellenistic
Philosophers
 Hellenistic Art and
Literature
 Science, Medicine and
Mathematics