played as students arrive

1. Classical Greece
session i - Origins

2. Classical Greece
session i - Origins

3. course outline
i - Origins
ii - Rise of the Polis
iii - Colonies & Tyrants
iv - Sparta & Athens
v - Great Wars, 490-404
vi - Golden Age
vii - Second Military Revolution
viii - Hellenism

4. Questions to Answer in this Session
Why study ancient Greece?
What is our primary source of knowledge about prehistoric Greece?
What was the culture of Mycenaen Greece like?
How does Homer stand up as an historical source?
What were the Greek Dark Ages?
What are the latest findings about this period?

5. preview of today’s
session

7. Achilles and Patroklos

8. Ancient Sparta--theater

9. Aristotle

10. Delphi
tholos

11. Delphi
treasure house

14. Palace at Knossos

15. Discus of Phaistos

16. Knossos--throne room

17. Knossos--restored palace

20. Heinrich
Schliemann

21. Sophia
Schliemann
wearing
“Priam’s
treasure”

22. Mycenae--the lion’s gate

24. the
lions Mycenae--reconstruction
gate

25. Mycenae--acropolis

26. Mycenae--tholos tomb

27. interior shot of
the same view

28. grave goods from a Mycenean shaft grave
replicas

29. the “mask of Agamemnon”

30. Homer

31. “The wrath of Achilles”
Leon Benouville

32. Odysseus

33. “Jupiter and Thetis”
Jean Dominique Ingres

34. Zeus at Olympia
Roman copy of Phideias

36. Napoleon i
j.d. Ingres

37. Lincoln
Daniel Chester French

39. Troy

42. The Blegen Library
University of Cincinnati

44. Linear B

45. proto-Greek in
a Phoenician alphabet

48. the world of Homer

50. the Lelantine War

51. Heroön at Lefkandi

52. preview of future classes

53. session ii- Polis

57. session iii-Colonies & Tyrants

60. Peisistratos
tyrant of Athens
ca 6th c BC – 527 or 528 BC

61. session iv-Sparta & Athens

63. Λ (lambda) is for Lacedaemon
the name for the kingdom
Sparta is its capital city

64. built 447-438 BC

65. Phideias shows his frieze for the Parthenon

66. session v-Great Wars, 490-404

67. the Persian wars, 490-479

69. Xerxes’ pontoon bridge across the Hellespont, 480 BC

70. session vi-Golden Age

71. Thales
Father of Philosophy

72. Herodotos
Father of History

73. Perikles
Father of Democracy

74. session vii-Second Military Revolution

75. Epaminondas

76. Aleksander

77. Gaugamela, 331 BC

78. session viii-Hellenism

80. Pergamon altar ( 1st half, 2nd c. bc) as reconstructed
Pergamon Museum, Berlin

81. Laocoön and His Sons, 25 BC