Monday: Notes
Tuesday: Notes & Video
There were two alliances
Glorify athens
Embezzled money from delian league to build buildings
Parthenon built during this time
Greek sculptors focused on beauty, not realism
Tragedies were series of drama about common themes like love, hate, war, or betrayal
Heroes are important person and gifted with extraordinary abilities
Had a tragic flaw which causes the hero’s downfall
Comedies contained funny scenes.
Made fun of politicians
Aristophanes was a famous writer of comedies
Athenians could listen to criticism of themselves showed that freedom existed in Athens
They started history
Herodotus pioneered accurate reporting of events
Peloponnesian war - fought between athens and sparta
Sparta won
Mainly because athens was acting like a “bully”
Sparta focused on land
Athens focused on sea
Sparta wins with help of plague
Pericles plan to win didn’t work
Plague killed almost 30,000 people
King Phillip II
Goal was to take over Greece and then get revenge by taking over persian empire
Macedonians
Lived in mountainous villages, not city-states
Alexander took over for his father, Philip, in 336 BC
Philip was assassinated at his daughter’s wedding by a former bodyguard (Pausanias)
Alex died at age of 32y/o died of sickness
Only ruled for 13 years (336-323 BC)
Due to accomplishments her became known as Alexander the Great
Was taught by aristotle
Died from high fever, possibly typhoid or malaria
Wednesday - Videos
Thursday - Notes
Socrates was a philosopher of Ancient Greece
Socrates taught by asking questions
This is the socratic method of teaching
He was sentenced to death for corrupting the youth of Athens
Had to drink hemlock
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance”
Plato was student of Socrates
Started school at The Academy that lasted 900 years
He wrote The Republic, talked about perfectly governed society-not a democracy
All citizens would fall into three groups farmers, artisans, and the ruling class
Person with the greatest intellect from ruling class would be chosen as king
Aristotle was a student of Plato
Wrote about science, are, law, poetry, government, etc.
Taught Alexander the Great
“He who studies how things originated will achieve the clearest view of them.”
Alexander eliminated his opponents to the throne and then moved to consolidate Greece
Alexander then turned to the east to take over the persian empire
Darius the III retreated quickly and offered alexander all lands west of the Euphrates River
Alexander refused and took over all of the Persian Empire
In 332 BC, Alexander the Great moved into Egypt and “liberated” Egypt from the Persians
Egyptians crowned Alexander Pharaoh
Founded Egyptian city of Alexandria
After Egypt, he moved into Mesopotamia and finished the job of defeating Darius and the Persians
Capital of Persian Empire , Persepolis was burned by Alexander as revenge for the Persians burning Athens
After Alexander died
Greek empire split into three sections
City states led by Antigonus
Egypt led by Ptolemy
Former Persian empire ruled by Seleucus
Leaders ruled with absolute power
Friday - NOTES
Hellenistic Culture became common all throughout the Greek Empire
Greek, Persian, and Indian cultures mixed
the language they spoke was Koine
trade and cities
philosophy, art and architecture
Euclid established geometry
Archimedes estimated the value of pi and the law of lever
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