Religion
- Myth- Hercules
- polytheistic- having more that one god
- Monotheistic- one god
- Greeks had many gods
- Zues was the king of gods and the sky
- Poseidon was god of water and earquakes
- Hades king of underworld had a three headed dog
- Helios- god of sun
- Athena- god of civility- math, science and art
- Appollo god of healing and truth, and brought sickness and plague
- Ares- God of war
- Hemes- messenger of the gods
- Aphrodite- goddess of love and beauty
- Artemis- goddess of hunting, childbirth and animals- twin to apollo
- Romans had same belief as Athenians but prayed to different gods
- Altars were used in temples
- statues of gods were at the alters- a temple for one or more gods
- temples made of mudbrick- too meters tall with no roof
- Financed by the city
- Roman empire abandoned them and turned them into churches
- Temples showed the cities wealth
- Priests had the power to talk to the gods
- were respected and trusted
- To become a priest your parents had to be priests or a dying priest mlade you one
- Priests helped the visitors of the temples
- People prayed to different gods for different things
- Made offerings to the gods
- Good people went to good places after death- bad to bad places- average would be buried with food
- Really bad people went to a place called tartus
Art and Architecture
- Aeschylus- 7 of his 70 plays have survived to modern times
- Sohocles- 7 of 123 survived
- Euripides- 18 of 92 survived
- Painters- Psiax- made transition form black figure to red figure- Euphronics- and Oltos
- Key buildings- Ionic were more delicate
- Doric temple- had no base so unstable
- Corinthic- were very ionic and doric
- Temples were made for worshiping gods and some were assosiated with astromomy
- Public buildings and open air theater
- Sports- huge aspect of Greek/Athenian culture
- The hippodrome used for horse racing and olympics
- Corinth, Parthenon, Sanctuary of appollo, Temple of Olymian Zues, Portara, Temple of Demeter
- Athenians were known for a degree of perfection of architecture and sculpture
military- our group presented
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
- Socrates- born in 469 bc- was a philoshopher and a scultor- at 40 he was a soldier in the pelopaneasian war- then became a speaker and a teacher- "I only know that I know nothing" - one of students was Plato
- Socrates was known as one of the wisest people of all time- lived his whole life in Athens- Very influential speaker in developement of Greek philosophy
- Plato- born around 428 bc died 347 bc- came from wealthy family- his father was Ariston
- well known philosopher- was a mathmetician and a student of Socrates. wrote philosophical dialogs and founder of Academy of Athens
- Plato was sold into slavery-he believed in life after death- many stories to his death
- Plato "Whatever decieves men seems to produce a magical enchantment"
- Aristotle- Famous greek Philosopher- considered one of the Great thinkers of Greece- Born in 384- Moved to Athens ot attend Platos academy, became a teacher there.
- Moved back to Macedonia to tutor Alexander the Great- then started his own school, Lyceum
- had many ideas dealing with biology, math and laws of motion- said that there is no one comparable ot him for the next 2000 years
- Ranking 1st Socrates, 2nd Plato, 3rd Aristotle- known as father of biology
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