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The Classical Greece Unit 2 Before You Read ◼1. What do you know about Greece? Before You Read ◼ 2. A Legendary Horse ◼ The Trojan Horse Start to Read ◼ Text A The Classical Greece ◼ Text Focus ◼ Two eras of Ancient Greece? ◼ Classical Greece ◼ Hellenistic Greece ◼ Politics, culture and art of the Classical Greece ◼ Alexander the Great A General History of Ancient Greece ◼ Early Greeks: 2000 BCE -1100BCE ◼ Classical Age: ◼ Hellenistic Age: I. Early Greeks 2000-800 BCE ◼The Trojan War ◼Homer ◼Iliad II. The Classical Age ◼ 1. What period does the Classical Age corresponds to? ◼ The fall of the last Athenian tyrant in 510BCE to the death of Alexander the Great in 323BCE. ◼ 2. Which cities were the most powerful in Ancient Greece? ◼ Athens and Sparta Athens and Sparta Athens and Sparta ◼ Athens democracy ◼ Sparta military power Democracy in Ancient Athens Sparta II. Classical Greece ◼ 3. What cultural achievements were made? ◼ A direct democracy ◼ The teachings of great thinkers ◼ “Father of modern medicine” ◼ Dramas ◼ Art Classical Culture Cultural Achievements ◼Great Thinkers Socrates (about 470399 BC) ◼ Socrates liked to talk with people in the marketplace and in the street, asking and answering questions. This method of argument has come to be known as the dialectical method. ◼ In 399 he was put on trial on a charge of “injuring the city”. This trial was recorded later by Plato in the dialogue “The Apology of Socrates.” Socrates Plato (427-347) ◼ Plato built up a comprehensive system of philosophy. He argued that men have knowledge because of the