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Lesson 9.2 - Greek Gifts

Lesson 9.2 - Greek Gifts

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Lesson 9.2 - Greek Gifts

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Architecture

  • Who is the leader of Greece right now? (hint - he was slain by a plague)

  • He builds the Parthenon to honor the goddess ATHENA - it took 9 years!

  • It had lifelike statues of gods & goddesses. They were more beautiful than any statue ever before seen.

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From left to right: Congress, White House, Supreme Court

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Columns

  • There are three main kinds of columns used in greek architecture at this time.

  • Doric - is simple on the top

  • Ionic - hasa scroll like detail on the top

  • Corinthian - most elaborate; carved depictions of leaves and plants

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Multiple Choice

Which goddess did the Parthenon honor?

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Persephone

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Athena

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Aphrodite

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Hera

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Fill in the Blank

What is one US government building that was designed off of greek architecture?

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Art

  • Greek artists used black or red paint to decorate vases.

  • They would paint scenes of daily life and greek mythology.

  • These vases teach us about the daily lives of the ancient Greeks: their clothes, their hairstyles, and their food and drinks.

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Multiple Select

What kinds of scenes were painted on greek vases? (pick TWO)

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bedtime stories

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daily life

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random art

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greek mythology

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Literature

  • Hesiod - wrote out all the greek myths and wrote poems about daily life (without him we would not know these stories)

  • Homer - the Illiad and Odyssey; Greece's first two books

  • English borrows a lot of greek words and phrases: Achilles' heel, Atlas (greek god)

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Multiple Select

Hesiod's poems tell us about what? (pick TWO)

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greek myths

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philosophy

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mathematics

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daily life

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Multiple Choice

It's like the Illiad and Odyssey, Odyssey by ???

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Sophocles

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Hesiod

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Aristophanes

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Homer

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Theater

  • The word theater is a greek word meaning: a place to see

  • Sophocles - wrote tragedies where the hero struggles to do the right thing

  • Aristophanes - wrote comedies that poked fun at people and ideas (incl. politics)

  • They used the plays to deal with issues of the day like: politics, religious arguments, and every day struggles

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Theater (continued)

  • Greek theater lasted ALL DAY and was OUTSIDE.

  • Only men could perform on stage and they wore masks with different facial expressions to show emotions.

  • There weren't many actors in a cast, so the actors had to also use the masks to switch between roles.

  • People who write plays continue to base the way they write off of the famous plays from ancient greece.

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Multiple Select

Sophocles and Aristophanes wrote what kinds of plays? (pick TWO)

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comedies

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melodramas

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tragedies

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rom-coms

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Multiple Choice

True or False: Women were allowed to act on stage.

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True

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False

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Multiple Choice

Actors used ? to switch between roles and show a character's emotions.

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dresses

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wigs

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masks

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their own facial expressions

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Math & Science (pt 1)

  • Doubt - what if the gods and goddesses don't control events in nature?

  • Pythagoras - everything can be understood with numbers. He created the Pythagorean theorem which describes how a triangle works.

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Math & Science (pt 2)

  • Hippocrates - created the foundation of modern medicine. He chose to study diseases and find real cures other than the gods and goddesses (Hippocratic Oath!)

  • Democritus - father of CHEMISTRY - all matter is made up of atoms that move in specific ways

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Multiple Choice

Which of these was NOT a branch of science or math that the Greeks started? (pick 1)

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Chemistry

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Modern Medecine

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Astrophysics

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Pythagorean Theorem

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History

  • Herodotus - Greece's first historian; wrote about the Persian War; collected factual data and drew logical conclusions from the facts.

  • Thucydides - wrote about a civil war between Athens & Sparta; He did NOT collect facts, instead he just wrote his personal opinions and observations as a general in that war

  • We still use these two methods of writing about history.

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Multiple Select

What are the two methods of recording history that we learned from the greeks?

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Drawing Pictures

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Listing Facts

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Sharing Personal Experiences/Opinions

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Making Movies

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Philosphy & Teaching (part 1)

  • Philosophers = lovers of wisdom

  • Socrates - focused on morals; asked students questions to make them think for themselves; Socratic Method

  • Socrates was arrested because of 'dangerous ideas' that went against the leadership in Athens and forced to drink poison

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Philosphy & Teaching (part 2)

  • Plato - a student of Socrates; inspired to start the Academy in Athens; taught philosophy, law, and science.

  • Aristotle - a student of Plato; collected, organized, and classified information (scientific method!); He also opened his own school - Lyceum

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Multiple Choice

Why did Socrates have to drink poison?

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He criticised the leadership in Athens

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He smelled funny

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He was a terrible teacher

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He wanted to

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Multiple Choice

I learned philosphy from Socrates, I'm ???

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Plato

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Aristotle

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Multiple Select

Which two methods did we get from the philosophers?

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Scientific method

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Research method

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Socratic method

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Literary method

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