Week 5: Greece

 

Ancient Greece

            I. Geography of the Aegean

            II. Minoan Civilization on Crete 2600-1400 BCE

            III.Shift to Greece – Mycenae 1600-1100 BCE

                                    A.  The Myth of the Minotaur

                                    B.  Mycenaean Greece

            IV.The Greek Dark Age 1100-800 BCE

 

Important terms:

Crete                                                  Minos

Aegean                                              Knossos

Myth of the Minotaur                          Peloponnesus

The Iliad                                              The Odyssey

Homer

 

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Classical Greece

  1. Political Structure - the Polis

            A.  Athens

            B.  Sparta

  1. The Persian Challenge
  2. Golden Age of Athens

            A.  The Delian League

            B.  Age of Pericles 499-421 BCE

 

Important terms: Demos

                                    Democracy

                                    Ostracism

                                    Xenophobia

                                    Persian Kings Darius and Xerxes

                                    Hoplite warriors/ Phalanx

                                    Delian League

                                    Funeral Oration of Pericles

                                    Parthenon

                                    Athena

                                    “The School of Greece”

                                    Medea by Eruipides

                                    Peloponnesian War

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Friday – In-Class evaluation and discussion of excerpt from The Iliad on page 45 in textbook.