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Sanjana M

Ancient Greece - Culture and Society in the Ancient Greek World - 4 views

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      The Greek Government did not allow freedom of speech or full rights for the citizens of Greece.
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      Some geography here.
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      full of facts about Ancient Greece government
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  • The majority of Greek states were governed by groups of rich landowners, called aristocrats; this word is derived from 'aristoi', meaning best people. This was a system known as 'oligarchy' the rule by the few.
    • Sanjana M
       
      Good information about geek society.
    • Sanjana M
       
      Good website of Greek culture and society.
  • Greek Society was mainly broken up between Free people and Slaves, who were owned by the free people.
  • The social classes applied to men only, as women all took their social and legal status from their husband or their male partner. Women in ancient Greece were not permitted to take part in public life.
  • Democracy was introduced by an aristocrat, Cleisthenes.
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    Just some information about ancient Greek culture.
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    Just some information about ancient Greek culture.
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    facts about ancient greece government.
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    Greek Culture and Society
Shinjon C

Ancient Greece - Art and Architecture, Sculpture, Pottery and Greek Temples - 6 views

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    • Asha G
       
      We use a lot of these architectural designs today.
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      This is really detailed and i like this website
  • The Temple of Athena Nike - part of the Acropolis in the city of Athens. The Greeks built the Temple of Apollo at Didyma, Turkey (about 300 BC). The design of the temple was known as dipteral, a term that refers to the two sets of columns surrounding the interior section. These columns surrounded a small chamber that housed the statue of Apollo. With Ionic columns reaching 19.5 m (64 ft) high, these ruins suggest the former grandeur of the ancient temple.
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  • The Temple of Apollo at Didyma - The Greeks built the Temple of Apollo at Didyma, Turkey (about 300 BC). The design of the temple
  • was known as dipteral, a term that refers to the two sets of columns surrounding the interior section. These columns surrounded a small chamber that housed the statue of Apollo. With Ionic columns reaching 19.5 m (64 ft) high, these ruins suggest the former grandeur of the ancient temple.
    • Matilda M
       
      These are the three architectural systems- Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian.
    • Morgan T
       
      This website explains the architecture style of Ancient Greece
  • Architecture in ancient Greece: Greek life was dominated by religion and so it is not surprising that the temples of ancient Greece were the biggest and most beautiful
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      Greek life dominated religion
  • Architecture in ancient Greece: Greek life was dominated by religion
  • They also had a political purpose as they were often built to celebrate civic power and pride, or offer thanksgiving to the patron deity of a city for success in war.
  • Acropolis in Greek means "The Sacred Rock, the high city". All around the world the Acropolis of Athens is known as 'The Acropolis'. There are many Acropolises in Greece but the Acropolis of Athens is the best known.
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    Greek life was dominated by religion
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    This website is good for enduring impacts of ancient Greece for architecture. 
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    Greece Architecture
Paige W

BBC - History - Ancient History in depth: The Democratic Experiment - 1 views

  • Take politics for example: apart from the word itself (from polis, meaning city-state or community) many of the other basic political terms in our everyday vocabulary are borrowed from the ancient Greeks: monarchy, aristocracy, tyranny, oligarchy and - of course - democracy.
  • demokratia
  • It meant literally 'people-power'
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  • The Greek word demos could mean either
  • Was it all the people
  • Or only some of the people
  • There's a theory that the word demokratia was coined by democracy's enemies, members of the rich and aristocratic elite who did not like being outvoted by the common herd, their social and economic inferiors.
  • By the time of Aristotle (fourth century BC) there were hundreds of Greek democracies. Greece in those times was not a single political entity but rather a collection of some 1,500 separate poleis or 'cities' scattered round the Mediterranean and Black Sea shores 'like frogs around a pond', as Plato once charmingly put it.
  • cities that were not democracies
  • power was in the hands of the few richest citizens
  • monarchies, called 'tyrannies' in cases where the sole ruler had usurped power by force rather than inheritanc
  • most stable,
  • most long-lived,
  • most radical, was Athens.
  • origin of the Athenian democracy of the fifth and fourth centuries can be traced back to Solon,
  • flourished
  • 600 BC.
  • was a poet and a wise statesman
  • but not - contrary to later myth - a democrat.
  • Solon's constitutional reform package that laid the basis on which democracy could be pioneered
  • Cleisthenes was the son of an Athenian, but the grandson and namesake of a foreign Greek tyrant
  • also the brother-in-law of the Athenian tyrant, Peisistratus,
  • eized power three times
  • before finally establishing a stable and apparently benevolent dictatorship.
    • Paige W
       
      Interesting insight on the beginning of democracy.
  • nder this political system that Athens successfully resisted the Persian onslaughts of 490 and 480/79
  • victory in turn encouraged the poorest Athenians to demand a greater say in the running of their city
  • Ephialtes and Pericles presided over a radicalisation of power that shifted the balance decisively to the poorest sections of society
  • he democratic Athens that won and lost an empire,
  • built the Parthenon,
  • eschylus, Sophocles,
  • Euripides and Aristophanes
  • laid the foundations of western rational and critical thought
  • was not, of course, without internal critics
  • when Athens had been weakened by the catastrophic Peloponnesian War (431-404) these critics got their chance
  • n 411 and again in 404 Athenian oligarchs led counter-revolutions that replaced democracy with extreme oligarchy
  • oligarchs were supported by Athens's old enemy, Sparta
  • mpossible to maintain themselves in power
  • democracy was restored
  • 'blips' such as the trial of Socrates - the restored Athenian democracy flourished stably and effectively for another 80 years
  • There were no proper population censuses in ancient Athens,
  • total population of fifth-century Athens, including its home territory of Attica, at around 250,000 - men, women and children, free and unfree, enfranchised and disenfranchised. Of those
  • 250,000 some 30,000 on average were fully paid-up citizens -
  • adult males of Athenian birth and full status
  • second key difference is the level of participation.
  • representative
  • we choose politicians to rule for us
  • Athenian
  • democracy
  • was direct
  • and in-your-face.
  • most officials and all jurymen were selected by lot.
  • This was thought to be the democratic way, since election favoured the rich, famous and powerful over the ordinary citizen.
  • mid fifth century, office holders, jurymen, members of the city's main administrative Council of 500, and even Assembly attenders were paid a small sum from public funds to compensate them for time spent on political service away from field or workshop.
  • eligibility
  • adult male citizens need apply for the privileges and duties of democratic government, and a birth criterion of double descent - from an Athenian mother as well as father -
  • Athenian democracy did not happen only in the Assembly and Council. The courts were also essentially political spaces, located symbolically right at the centre of the city.
  • defined the democratic citizen as the man 'who has a share in (legal) judgment and office'.
  • Athenian drama,
  • was a fundamentally political activity as well,
  • One distinctively Athenian democratic practice that aroused the special ire of the system's critics was the practice of ostracism -
  • potsherd
  • rom the Greek word for
  • decide which leading politician should be exiled for ten years
  • on a piece of broken pottery.
  • voters scratched or painted the name of their preferred candidate
  • 6,000 citizens had to 'vote' for an ostracism to be valid,
  • biggest
  • political
  • risked being fried
  • For almost 100 years ostracism fulfilled its function of aborting serious civil unrest or even civil war
  • Power to the people, all the people, especially the poor majority, remained the guiding principle of Athenian democracy.
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    About of Greek Democracy
Martin M

Ancient Greece - 0 views

  • The art of the ancient Greeks is often reffered to as "classical art." It is simple and geometric and placed a great emphasis on the beauty of the human body. They usually used their ideas of the ideal human or of the gods as the subject of their art, rather than actual people. The Greek people used thier artistic talent to create beautiful sculptures, vases, paintings, jewelry, and reliefs. Many of these pieces still exist today. Sculpting is probably what the Greeks are most know for, however. Many museums around the world house ancient Greek sculptures or copies of those sculptures.
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      They made nice architectural designs!
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  • Greek architecture was big, beautiful, and symmetrical. Temples were the most common form of architecture, however they were used for politics as well as worship. There were three orders, or styles, of architecture in Ancient Greece. The Doric and Ionic orders were the most common, and the Corinthian order, while seen more in Roman architecture, was sometimes used also. Below you can see examples of the columns that were commonly used on Greek architecture. Each of them is from a different style and gives you a general idea of the characteristics of each style of achitecture.
  • Doric
  • The Doric style was simple and sturdy with a plain top.IonicThe Ionic style was more elegant and thin with a curled top.CorinthianThe Corinthian style was very ornate with a top that looked like leaves.
Arthur H

Recognizing Ancient Greek Achievements - 1 views

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      Ancient Greek achievements.
Emily S

Ancient Greek Clothing - 1 views

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    Greek clothing and culture
Josh S.

Inventions, Achievements - Ancient Greece for Kids - 8 views

  • Trial by Jury Greek Columns   Greek Architecture Fables and Legends Greek Myths Comedy, Tragedy, Satire, Theatre The Olympics Roots of Democracy  Ancient Greece Hall of Fame
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      Click on these to learn more about whatever item they created/invented
  • arts, philosophy, science, math, literature, and politics. 
  • edy, Satire, Theatre
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  • Comedy, Tragedy, Satire, Theatre
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    A list of ancient greece inventions with links better describing them
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    Check this out for facts of inventions of Ancient Greece
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    Ancient Greek Theater
Angela W

Greek Achievements - 0 views

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      I'm using a sticky for this because you can't highlight for some reason.  Wow, I'm really surprised by how many achievments they had, especially in math and science!
sshroge s

Sculpture and Art in Ancient Greece - 1 views

  • The best example showing freedom of movement is the Discobolos (The Discus Thrower) by Myron in the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome. This is one of the most famous classic Greek statues from this period.
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    Some of the most famous works of Greek art.
Olivia A

Mythology - Ancient Greek Gods and Myths. - 1 views

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      Hi! it's kaia
    • Angela W
       
      Wow, Greece has sooo many gods, but I'm pretty sure there are more. Where are the minor gods like Janus or Dionysus?
  • Chaos -
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      He might be important, because he was the head of the pyramid earlier.
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    This website has a good description of the topic.
Viet N

Ancient Greece - Geography - The British Museum - 0 views

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    Describes Greece geography.
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    The geography of Ancient Greece.
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    Greek geography has many features
brock j

Ancient Greece - Art and Architecture, Sculpture, Pottery and Greek Temples - 1 views

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  • Acropolis in Greek means "The Sacred Rock, the high city". All around the world the Acropolis of Athens is known as 'The Acropolis'. There are many Acropolises in Greece but the Acropolis of Athens is the best known. The Acropolis is primarily dedicated to the Goddess Athena. But humans from the prehistoric era have populated the Acropolis and the caves around it. Situated in the middle of Athens, many myths, festivals and important events are connected to the sacred Acropolis. The Acropolis echoes the grandeur and the power of the Athenian empire....
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    this is cool things about the acropolis
Esther M

Ancient Greece - Ancient Greek People, Playwrights, Philosophers, Poets, Military Leade... - 0 views

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    people in ancient greece
mrs. b.

Ancient Greece - History of Ancient Greek World, Time Line and Periods, Archaic, Classi... - 1 views

  • Classical Period (500-336 BC)
  • In this period Athens reached its greatest political and cultural heights: the full development of the democratic system of government under the Athenian statesman Pericles; the building of the Parthenon on the Acropolis; the creation of the tragedies of Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides; and the founding of the philosophical schools of Socrates and Plato.
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Rachel C

Ancient Greece - Persian, Peloponnesian, Spartan, Greek Wars - 0 views

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  • Sparta thought that attacking the productive land of Attica, it would pressurize Athens to come forward to start the battle in a formal manner. Athens's army was definitely inferior to Sparta and allies. But this attack did not have much effect of Athens's because; their food supply mainly came from Egypt and Crimea.
  • The Ionian Revolt: The start of First Persian War?
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    This website tells you about greece in many different categories. 
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    wars of ancient greece 
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    Ancient Greece Wars
Lorenzo K

Ancient Greece - Geography of the Ancient Greek World and Aegean Map - 1 views

  • Athen
  • s is the symbol of freedom, art, and democracy in the conscience of the civilized world
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      The capital took its name from the goddess Athena.
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  • The capital of Greece took its name from the goddess Athena
  • This is where that marvel of architecture, the Parthenon, was created.
  • In the centre of town are two hills, the Acropolis with the monuments from the Age of Pericles, and Lycabettus with the picturesque chapel of Ai Giorgis
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    thens is the symbol of freedom, art, and democracy in the conscience of the civilized world.
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    Describes Greece's geography.
Bridgitte F

Ancient Greece - History of Ancient Greek World, Time Line and Periods, Archaic, Classi... - 0 views

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      the dark age happened in 1100-750
  • divided into small city states, each of which consisted of a city and its surrounding countryside
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      the history of grease 
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  • The history of Greece can be traced back to Stone Age hunters.
  • There were only a few historians in the time of Ancient Greece.
  • This was followed by a period of wars and invasions, known as the Dark Ages
  • In about 1100 BC, a people called the Dorians invaded from the north and spread down the west coast. In the period from 500-336 BC Greece was
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    Time Periods Of Ancient Greece
Zoe K

Ancient Greece - The British Museum - 1 views

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      Shows you artifacts of Ancient Greece
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      Tells about the things on the left.
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      nice place to start
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      covers many topics(see below)
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    The greeks had a big community.
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    about ancient greece
Cameryn C

Ancient Greece - History of Ancient Greek World, Time Line and Periods, Archaic, Classi... - 2 views

    • Cameryn C
       
      Telling about how ancient Greece was tracked, how farmers came after followed by war and invasions.
  • The history
  • traced back to Stone Age hunters
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  • came early farmers and thecivilizations of the Minoan and Mycenaean kings
  • Greece
  • Later
  • followed by a period of wars
  • invasions, known as the Dark Ages
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