Mr. Kenney Greece Background

1. GREECE Understanding culture and art

2. YOUR GOALS ARE TO Understand the elements of Greek theater. Recognize how Greek ideals permeated Greek culture Explain the art of rhetoric and the value of persuasion Identify fallacies of reasoning . . . .

3. Corinth

4. Corinth

5. Corinth

6. ANCIENT GREEK PERIOD Theban Plays Oedipus, OaC, Antigone

9. The White House

13. What is Philosophy?

14. Age-Old Profound Questions What is Real and What is Not? Why Are We Here? How Did We Get Here? Where Are We Headed? .

15. Profound Questions Are often simple YET… Are philosophically “deep.” . . .

16. Their Answers Are sometimes simple YET… Often paradoxical or even unknowable. . . .

18. “ The UNEXAMINED LIFE is not worth living. ” Socrates before his death in 399 B.C.

22. What is…

29. POLITICS

33. The Greeks wished to maintain ideal proportions when building any room or like structure from the ground up.

34. Today: The Parthenon in Athens (Int.)

35. the Fibonacci Series 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, . . http://goldennumber.net/classic/fibonser.htm

36. GREEK DRAMA

39. 496-406 B.C. “ Fortunate Sophocles who after a long life died, a happy and a gifted man after writing many fine tragedies he made a good end, having endured no evil. ” Phrynichas, Greek Comic Poet

47. Skene

48. Ekkyklema

49. From Aristotle’s Poetics The Six Aspects of Tragedy

52. Contemporary Short Story Pattern

56. Persuasion and Rhetoric

57. David’s Death of Socrates: Neoclassical Period (1787)