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THE GOLDEN AGE
5th and 4th Century Greek Culture
POETRY
• Epic poetry, e.g. Homer, Hesiod– (Very) long narratives– Mythological, heroic or supernatural themes– More objective
• Lyric poetry, e.g. Pindar and Sappho– Originally written to be sung– Much shorter– More personal– More subjective
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GREEK DRAMA
• Form of religiousritual– Festival to Dionysus
• Only male actors,wearing masks
• Use of CHORUS
TRAGEDY
• Not necessarily tragic• Better than average people• Suffering bad fortune• Popular myths or heroic Greek past• Three great playwrights:
– Aeschylus: The Oresteia– Sophocles: Oedipus Trilogy– Euripides: Medea, Electra
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COMEDY
• Not necessarily funny• Average or below average people• Enjoying good fortune• Everyday language• Aristophanes: poking fun at everyone• Menander: more personal
HISTORY
• Herodotus– “Father of History”– Also an ethnographer and geographer– History of the Persian Wars
• Thucydides– History of the Peleponnesian Wars
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The World According to Herodotus
POTTERY
• Spread verywidelythrough trade
• Battle,hunting andmythologicalscenes
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SCULPTURE
• Perfection achievable throughaesthetics– Proportion, harmony, unity
• Naturalistic figures– Often portrayed real people, very personal
• Idealized types– Veneration of the perfect human form– Great muscles, no body hair
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Phidias
• friend of Pericles• Oversaw
construction of theParthenon
• works includedcelebrations ofMarathon & vaststatues of gods
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Praxiteles
• Aphrodite of Cnidos• First monumental
female nude inclassical Greece
ARCHITECTURE
• Same principles of AESTHETICS• Shared characteristics of public
buildings:– limestone dressed with marble– rectangular floor plan– portico of stone columns on 2 or 4 sides– tiled, gabled roofs (no domes)
• E.g. Temples, Markets
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Theaters• public meetings
and drama• semi-circular
tiered seatingaround acentralperforming area
PHILOSOPHY
• CORNERSTONE OF WESTERNPHILOSOPHY
• Transmitted via Rome and Islam to theMedieval West
• Built upon earlier civilizations• Rejected mythology and religion• Emphasized LOGIC and REASON
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SOCRATES
• executed 399 BC• The “Father of Ethical Philosophy”• Believed that:
– All men should strive to do the right thing– All men should strive for JUSTICE– All men should strive for TRUTH– The truth could be reached through REASON– Important to acknowledge IGNORANCE
The Socratic Method
• DIALOGUE between two people, oneleading, one responding– Leader states a thesis– Responder asks questions challenging
assumptions and details• Still used in modern law schools• E.g. Plato’s Socratic Dialogues
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SOPHISTS
• Taught skills for a price• E.g. crafts, oratory• Used rhetoric and language for
PERSUASION & DECEIT not TRUTH• Condemned by Socrates and Plato
PLATO
• Student of SOCRATES• Founded the ACADEMYUsed Socratic Method for a variety of subjects:• Ethics:• Metaphysics: The nature of reality
– Theory of FORMS• Everything in (our) material world is just a SHADOW of
an ideal reality of universals• Universals: the ideal form of a particular item or concept
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• Political Philosophy– What is the ideal state?– Oligarchic:– Caste based:
• Philosophers and seekers for truth should ruleusing REASON
• Supported by warriors and workers– Meritocratic, not based on birth– Ideal was SPARTA, not Athens
• Mathematics, including geometry
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ARISTOTLE
• Student of Plato• Became a tutor to ALEXANDER the GREAT• SYSTEMATIZED philosophy and science
– observation (EMPIRICISM), reasoning and logic– Precursor to the SCIENTIFIC METHOD
• Practical not just theoretical ETHICS:– “We are not studying in order to know what virtue
is, but to become good, for otherwise there wouldbe no profit in it”
MATHEMATICS & SCIENCE
• Astronomy• Trigonometry, e.g. Pythagoras’ Theorem
• Geometry– Euclid
• AXIOMATIC SYSTEM: Logical examination ofassumptions (axioms) to derive a theorem
• Golden ratio– Archimedes
• Geometry and Arithmetic• Physics: Fluid mechanics; the lever• Technology: screw pump, siege engine, catapult
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MEDICINE
• Emphasis upon a healthy lifestyle: gooddiet and hygiene
• Hippocrates• “Father of Medicine”• Theory of the “Four Humors”
– Accepted for physical traits until 1858!– Used in psychology until the 20th century
Hippocratic Corpus
• Descriptions of many conditions• Categorization of conditions• Definition of many medical terms• Hippocratic Oath
– Ethical behavior of doctors
Hippocratic Medicine dominated medicinethrough until the early medieval period