COLLEEN

1. Why was Antisthenes so important?

• Aristotle founded logic theory
• went to exile voluntarily
• Thales
• first ever western philosopher
• no writing survived
• one of the seven wise men of Greece
• traveled to Egypt to study the science of geometry
• Greek philosophy
• first in the west to explore nature in a rational way and to make educated guesses about the creation of the world
• Allegory of the cave
• The unexamined life is not worth living.- Socrates.

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Hellentic Age

• started when alexander the great die
• greece was conquered
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EMILY

1. Why did they hate math?
2. How many miles was the earth's circumfrence?

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RITA

• Doubts that he was real
• born in greece
• court singer and storyteller
• homer probably didn't make up the illidad or odyssey himself
• odyssey- travels of odysseus
• doubtful that homer wrote them
• died natural death

1. How did he write the stories if he was blind?
2. Was he famous?
3. What were his writing styles?
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Today is the first day of the fourth. I got all my grades up to passing last quarter. Today in class we presented our powerpoints/presentations to other people in our class before we present them to the whole class. I think that I am well prepared for it. I hope i get a good grade on it because i worked really hard and i want to start the fourth quarter off good!

Friday in class we got 3 tests back. Then we went over the answers. I didn't do so good on the tests. It was also the end of the 3rd quarter. This year has gone by really fast. we were also assigned a project to do. we have to present to the class. i have to do greek poets and poetry.

Today in class we were assigned to do a project. We have to pretty much teach the class after we come back from break. We got to select our card. I got greek poetry/poets. This counts for the fourth quater. After that we started going over our test. I passed luckily! It was really hard though.

Yesterday in class we had a test. It was a really hard test but i passed! We were allowed to use our blogs for this test. It covered the greeks. It was 58 points. It covered Themistocles, Xerxes, Athens, Mycennaeans, arete and miths etc.

Pericles

• leader of Athens at the height of its power
• brought democracy
• wanted to glorify Athens.
• aristocrat- knew what the people wanted
• wanted Athens to be the most famous in all of history.
• 20 years ago, Persians burned down acropolis.
• he proposed to build it again
• Parthenon
• used to glorify Athens
• used 20 talons- 2 billion
• required 20 thousand tons of marble.
• was completed in 15 years.
• spiritual heart of the city
• frieze-  an architectural ornament consisting of a horizontal sculptured band between the architrave and the cornice
• hubris- Greek word that means arrogance

Downfall of Greece

• 431 bc, proposes to go to war with Sparta
• equal in power
• if they won, it would make them the un despuited ruler of the Mediterrean
• knew it wouldn't be easy to win
• convinced the Athenians to retreat and hide behind the wall
• thought that they would back down and win.

Aspasia

• known as an atria
• prostitute
• Pericles treated her as an equal, caused a stir
• divorced his wife for her
• let her into the inner circle

In the acropolis

• worlds first theater
• popular entertainment
• Greeks invented drama
• comedy
• tragedy

Oedipious

• told to kill father and marry mother
• kills father but doesn't know it's him
• marries mother and has kids

Themisticles

• realized that the persians might still be an enemy
• trireme- state of the art ship. stacking 170 oars on three levels
• light weight
• free power
• good manuverable
• would ram other ships with the point of the boat
• go as afast as they could go and ram into another one
• most advanced weapon
• take out another ship with 100s of people on it
• exspensive

Xerxes

• wants to burn athens
• began to gather his forces
• from everywhere
• 2 million man army
• set out for greece 480 bc
• "drank rivers dry"
• ravaging the land as they marched towards greece
• xerxes was confident
• greeks asked the oracle what was going to happen
• oracle of delphi
• built around a casam
• would go to discover their futurE
• GREEKS WIN.

Salamis

• fight in straight of salamis

Delian League

• had more than 200 things
• werent about conquering
• athens is in charge
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Hippias

• brother was killed
• went parinoid

Cleisthenes

Olympics

• 4000 people came to watch them
• to win would be the highlight of your life
• had extreme fame
• high value
• anyone could compete

Isagoris

• athenian aristocrat
• brought in the most powerful state
• going to turn athens into a subject state to sparta
• out for power
• wants to run athens like its part of sparta
• over 700 houses were cast, even cleisthenes house
• had to live under dictator
• the spartans
• people rose up againts him and threw him out of power
• first time that has ever been done
• Cleisthenes took over when he came back to athens

New Leader

• Cleisthenes took over
• had a meeting place
• instituded the simple vote
• white peble for yes
• black peble for no

Pheidippedes

• ran alone
• homeland about to be conquered by persian empire
• ran for freedom
• ran 140 miles in 2 days
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Hoplites- soldier

athenians out numbered 4-1

Themistocles

The Greeks, Crucible of Civilization

• 508 bc- ordinary people turned on their rulers.
• chleisthenes wanted them to govern themselves
• aristocrat- memeber of the ruling class
• acropolis- athens was founded, big area of rock. 
• could fend off the attacks of their raders
• famrers and tradesment houses were around the acropolis
• reading and writing was  a rare skill
• life expantancy was less than 15 years.
• life was tough
• weren't slaves but they were treated as bad as slaves but they were free
• no part or share in anything
• aristorcats owned everything
• athens seemed like a state that wouldn't progress
• mountainous
• greece was divided into city states- little nations
• sparta
• athens
• corren
• fought and had wars against each other
• didn't get along
• had a lot in common
• same language
• worshiped same god
• athens wasn't powerful

SPARTA

• lives were structured around war
• brought up to be a military man
• few possesions
• cloaks died red to conceal their blood or enimies blood
• food was bad
• people understood why they wanted to die
• intent on conquering
• women had a lot of rights
• when men were away they had to do their work
• run farm
• work
• children

Elidad and Oddysey written by homer

• mythical figures who had won them power
• heros
• found all over greek art

Tyrant

• someone who grabs control
• Pisistratus- cleisthenese brother in law
• came in with a tall chick that he said was named athena
• people believed it
• gave him legitinacy
• athens is named after her
• goddes
• zeus's daughter
• came in and seized control
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