Emily Stasuk: 97%
Trial of Socrates
- He asked questions that angered people.
- He wanted to share his knowledge with the world
- Began sharing his knowledge with young followers led to philosopher Plato.
- People did not like his forward thinking
- 399 b.c. people expressed their distaste for his teachings
- non democratic thinking made people angry.
- Charges against him:
- Impiety (not respecting the gods)
- corruption of young men's minds
- by law they couldn't charge him with not being democratic so they came up with vague religious issues to charge him with.
- large trial in front of Athenian jury
- Puzzles historians because the Athenian society had been very free and democratic.
- sentenced to death at age 70.
- Socrates didn't like the Peloponnesian War.
Rachel Weskalnies: 100%
Greek Architecture
- extinct in greece from the end of the Mycenaean period (1200 bc) until the 7th century
- began on the shores of the Aegean Sea around 700 bc
- temples, tonbs, public meeting places, and other.
- always had a statue of a god or goddess
Rachel knew a lot about her project and made it fun and interesting.
Elena Fernandez: 96%
Greek poets
- Hesiod
- Very little is known.
- Ascra in Boeotia is his native village.
- Pinder
- Greatest lyric poet of ancient greece
- first poem was in honor of the winner of the national game.
- Sappho
- Known for poetry but sang too
- first woman poetry
- head of a girls school
- wrote about her fight with brothers
Cole Alban: 100%
The Golden Age of Greece
- The Age of Pericles
- economic and military power of the world
- it lasted for 50 years
- began after the Athenians defeated the Persians
- ended when the Pelop. war began
- Pericles
- Was and aristocrat
- the man who led Athens into their Golden ge
- built the Parthenon
- gave people power to vote for the leaders of the state
- started the Peloponnesian war.
- Parthenon:
- built ontop of the Acropolis to show off Greece
- inside was a statue of Athen
- Many famous plays were written during this year
- comedies also came into
- they looked more into volcanoes and earthquakes.
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