Geography Greece Territory included Mountainous peninsula Divided Greeks never unified 1400 islands W coast Asia MinorAnatolia Did not live on land but AROUND seas Seas Liquid highways ID: 472913
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Ancient GreeceSlide2
Geography Greece
Territory included:
Mountainous peninsula
Divided Greeks – never unified
1,400 islands
W. coast Asia Minor/Anatolia
“Did not live on land, but AROUND seas”
Seas = Liquid highways
Trade very important b/c little resources
No timber, precious metals, usable farmland
Ate simple diet grapes, grains, olives
Moderate climate
Winter = 48 degrees F
Summer = 80 degrees F
Most people spent time outsideSlide3
The Apotheosis of WashingtonSlide4
The Bronze Age: Minoans and Mycenaean'sSlide5
The Minoan WorldSlide6
Sir Arthur EvansSlide7
Excavations at KnossosSlide8
Artist’s recreation of KnossosSlide9
King MinosSlide10
Linear A – (undecipherable)Slide11
What do these artifacts tell you about Minoan Culture?Slide12
Minoan religion: Goddess worship?Slide13
Minoan Religion: Bull Cult?Slide14
Bull JumpingSlide15
What caused the End of Minoan Civilization?Slide16
Mythical Atlantis or Mycenaean's?Slide17
Myth of the MinotaurSlide18
The Mycenaean WorldSlide19
Heinrich SchliemannSlide20
Excavation of MycenaeSlide21
Artist Reconstruction of MycenaeSlide22
Cyclopean WallsSlide23
Lions gateSlide24
Shaft GravesSlide25
Mask of AgamemnonSlide26
Beehive GravesSlide27
Linear B: Decipherable Slide28
Brutal CombatSlide29
The Trojan War
What caused the Trojan war?Slide30
Marriage of Thetis and Peleus
I Zeus, overthrown by my son…Slide31
The apple of discordSlide32
Hera
Athena
Aphrodite
Who is the fairest of them all…Slide33
The bribe: the most beautiful woman
Helen of SpartaSlide34
Menelaus
Agamemnon
911 there’s a problem…Slide35
Odysseus
Achilles
Convincing Odysseus & Achilles to join war…Slide36
Warrior AchillesSlide37
Iphigenia
Help I’m stuck and I can’t get unstuck…Slide38
Briseis
Plague
Death of Patroclus
Death of Hector
Death of Achilles
Death of Paris
The 10
th
year…Slide39
Trojan horse: The demise of the TrojansSlide40
Helen gets back w/ Menelaus, but they’re stranded in Egypt for 7 years
Agamemnon makes it back to Mycenae, but is killed by his wife Clytemnestra with an axe
Odysseus wandered the sea for 10 years before returning home to Ithaca
The “real” end of the story…Slide41
Bronze age enemies?Slide42
Homer’s Troy
(VII)
The 9 layers of Ancient troySlide43
Artist reconstruction of TroySlide44
“Walls” of Ancient troySlide45
The real Walls of Ancient troySlide46
King
Priam’s
treasureSlide47
Summary of Minoans and Mycenaean’s
Minoans
Mycenae
Island of Crete
Sir Arthur Evans
King
Minos
Peaceful culture?
Palace culture, vivid frescos, bull cult, fishing and trade
Linear A
Minotaur
Greek Mainland
Schliemann
King Agamemnon
Warlike culture
Palace culture, walls and defenses, beehive and shaft graves
Linear B
TroySlide48
The Greek Dark Ages (aka Iron Age)Slide49
(DORIANS}
The Dorian InvasionSlide50
Decline in Greek CultureSlide51
Geography of
greeceSlide52
Greek City State or Citizen State
“the people” or “the community”
The PolisSlide53
Each polis had an agora (market place) and acropolis (fortified citadel)
The Polis continued…Slide54
Fundamental idea:
All male
citizens
“equal” political
rights based on ownership of property
Non-citizen = Women, children, slaves and resident aliens (aka outsiders
)
The Polis continued…Slide55
Homer and Hesiod
The Iliad
and
The Odyssey
Theogony
and
Works and Days Slide56
Greek religionSlide57
Basic characteristics
Polytheistic
Hierarchal
Moral guideline
Anything in excess improper
Explained world
Myths Slide58
14 Olympian gods and goddesses
Aphrodite- Love & Beauty
Apollo- Sun & Music
Ares- War
Artemis- Hunt
Athena- Wisdom & Arts
Demeter
- Harvest
Dionysus- Wine
Hades
- Underworld
Hephaestus- Metallurgy
Hera
- Family
Hermes- Trade
Hestia
- Hearth
Poseidon
- Sea
Zeus
- SkySlide59
MusesSlide60
FatesSlide61
FuriesSlide62
Characteristics of Gods
Immortal, but not all powerful
Act like humans, have human vices too
Meddle and mingle w/ humansSlide63
The Underworld
“Place of Hades”
Early thought = Gloomy Place
Later thought = Place of Judgment
Rewarded or cursed
Fields of Asphodel
Tartarus
Punishment fit crimeSlide64
Worship of the Gods
Build temples
National shrines
Oracle of Delphi
Sacrifice
Festivals
Olympics