Ancient Agora of Athens
- Marketplace for social, communications, and religous events
Temple of Zeus at Olympia
- Ancient Greek Temple in Olympia dedicated to the cheif of the Gods Zeus
- Built between 472 and 456 BC
- Very model of fully developed classical Greek Temple
Segesta's Temple
- Political temple for the Elymian people
Delphi Treasury
- Built to protect valuables, such as gold or silver
Parthenon
- Temple dedicated to Athena
- Made of pentelic marble
- One of the most monumental representatives symbols of the culture
Athena- The Parathenon was the temple of Athena and stayed intact until 1687
- There were two statues of Athena, one inside the Parathonen adn one outside
Acropolis
- Means the highest point of the town
- A home to kings, several temples, shrines,
Temple of Athena Nike
- Made to worship the Greek Goddess of Athens
Greel Parliament
- Palace for Kings Otto and George 1
- Also served as parliament and senate building
Theater of Dionysus
- Where songs and dances were performed to honor Dionysus
Panathenaic Stadium
- Where males competed in events similar to track and field
Library of Hadrian- Consist es of lecture halls, studies, and a library
Art
- One of the things that survived tp pir day from the golden age is the Minoan Art
- It provides insight into the culture that flourished in Crete
- Not much art survived
- The art in Athens is some of the most unique in the world
Theater
- The Athenians had great theater art in the golden age
- Arion created chorus singing and the chorus became part of plays
- One actor played multiple roles by waring different masks
- The theater was a semi-circle
- Comical, tragedies, and satyr
Architecture
- The Greeks developed architectural designs
- Doric is plain and sturdy
- Ionic is thinner and more decorated
- Corinthian is fancy
Military
- The Delian League was founded by the Athenians after the Persians Wars
- The name "Delian Language" derived from the official meeting place of League: Delos
- The league was a split of confederacy dividing Greece into 5 districts: Thrace, Hellespont, Ionia, Caria, adn the islands
- It was a military organization whose purpose was bascially to keep pushing Persians out of Greece
Delian League
- The Pelopennisian War started as a result of the League making Athens too powerful- The League went up against Sparta and its allies
- First member: Naxos
- After the rebellion was put down, they had to tear down their walls, give up their naval fleet, and lose their vote
Grecian Warriors:
- The ancient Greece roles in the war were to protect their country
- The warriors fought for their own personal glory instead of a organized formation
- The soldiers farmers had tended to their farms before battles
- Death in wars was the most glorious way to die
- Outside of being the warriors they lived a normal lived like picking crops and families
- The down side to being a warrior was you were almost a slave
Key Players
- Themistoles leader of the Greeks Dursian Wars Spartans attempted to hold the pass of Thermopylae
- The Greek fleet was made of 300 ships, 200 of which were Athenian
- Leonidas was a 5th century BC Spartan military king
- Archidamus 2 was king of Sparta, one of his conflicts was call the Archidamin War
- Phormio- most important Athenion commander during Peloponnesian War
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