Greece
I) Art
1) Scultpure
A) Built upon the ideas of previous civilizations
art
i) created clothing like
effects out of stone
ii) Motion - greeks were
the first to capture motion in sculptue - also muscle tension
iii) moods - greeks could
imitate any kind of mood, happy to sad
iv) able to capture indiviudual
personalities
2) Architexture
A) created advanced colums - Corinthian,
Doric, Ionic
i) colums appear symetrical
but the purposely bulge in the middle to give the appearance of symetrical
ii) Architexture combines
with art, sculpture found on the side of buildings
iii) created theaters
with great sound flow
3) Painting
A) no survivable painting exists
B) must look at roman copies to
get an idea of the advancement of painting
4) Pottery
A) Started to use the red figure
pottery method
i) red figure
is able to show more detail than black figure, greeks were the first to
use this
5) Famous sculpute influence
A) Rodan learned much from the
greek sculptures, alos inspired many great artists
II) Sports
1) Greeks idolized the athlete and the athlete's body
type
A) many sculputes are based on the perfect
athletic body
2) Gymnastics were invented by the greeks
3) Olympics
A) every four years the greeks held
athletic games
B) Boxing, wrestling, track and field
were all greek events
III) History
1) 1st historians were greeks
A) True historians because they searched
for the reasons why events occured
B) Herodotus
i) was concerned with
why battle occured and a lot of signifigance of the events leading up to
the battle
ii) attitude toward
other civilizations
a) eager
to learn how other civs. did things
b) brought
the idea that we can learn from other cultures
c) will
look at the good and bad things of other cultures
1) learn from mistakes as well as advancements
C) Thucydides
i) wrote about
the Pelapensian War
a) uses a larger theme in his history
b) wrote how the political system of his culture brought about its end
D) Xenophon - Great historian
IV) Political Science
1) Greeks were the 1st political scientists
A) first civ to analyze different
form of government