Movie Notes:
- Socrates
- interested n the mind.
- he used reason and logic to study people.
- Socrates was arrested and put to death.
- he was accused of going against the gods/ religion and corrupting the youth.
- Thales
- first man to measure the height of the great pyramid
- sailed by using the stars in the sky for direction.
Madi Day: 95%
History of Greek Art.
- sculptures are made of marble, limestone, and
- Myron is the Greek sculptures, sculptures of athletics.
- Phidias- sculpted Zeus at Olympus.
- Symbol of Athens:
- Lysippus- realism art
- Polyclitus- bronze sculptures of young Athens. Phidias's equal.
- Praxiteles- school of art was contained of marble. he used marble to resemble the softness of his skin.
- Scopas- Worked on temples.
- Realism- trying to represent people as they really are. Try to get them as close to they way they look.
Mark Michael: 98 %
Greek Drama
- the theatrical culture that flourished in ancient Greece between c. 550 and
- Tragedy, comedy, and styr were the three dramatic genres to emerge there.
- they used drama as a way of investigating the world they lived in, and what it meant to be human.
- comedy plays were derived from imitation.
- Tragedies always had a happy ending. Tragedy deals with love, loss, pride, abuse of power.
- satyr plays- short plays that were performed between the acts of tragedies and made fun of the tragedy's characters.
- theater- buildings called a theatron.
- even with a lot of people in the stands everyone could be heard. It was because of their masks.
Jason Drager: 98%
Greek Army and Battles
- Peloponnesian war
- 431-404 B.C.
- Sparta was getting nervous about the growing power of Athens so they went o war.
- War caused Athens economy to crash.
- the ended with the Spartans capturing the Athenian navy and after 6 months of starvation they gave up.
- Trojan War
- took place in many places other than Troy.
- The goal was to shorten the supplies that were getting to Troy so that they would have to surrender.
- the war was also one of the greatest events in Greek mythology.
- 1194b.c.-1184 b.c.
- They got into Troy in a huge wooden horse, some people say that its not real.
- Greek Weapons
- Shield
- spear
- ballista- siege weapon that could fire.
- dagger/sword
- catapult
- Alexander the Great
- one of the greatest commanders of all time.
- his real name was Alexnder 3 of Macedon
- he was undefeated in battle
- took over Persian empire and wanted to control all of the known world,
- Eudemus
- when Alexander the great left India he left his great general in charge.
- he was appointed by him to command the troops left in India.
- became a very powerful man.
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