Classical Age Art, Laws, and Religion

Greek and Roman Examples

Greek Doric Column

Greek Ionic Column

Greek Corinthian Column

Where have you seen examples of these

columns present in our society today?

Doric Column NYC Customs House

Ionic University of Virginia

Corinthian University of Virginia

Roman Colosseum

Aerial View of the Colosseum

Pantheon

Pantheon Interior

Roman Baths

Discobolos (The Discuss Thrower) Greek Sculpture

Roman statues

Greek law

• Oligarchy- Rule of the few• Democracy- Rule of the many (Athens)• Sparta- Set up like a military camp

Roman Law• Roman Republic- Elected representatives • Patricians- made up the Senate• Plebians- made up the Army• Two consuls were chosen every year. They ran

the government and the army. The praetor was in charge of civil law.

• Law of the twelve tables- Laws written down so everyone could understand them.

• Council of Plebians- Veto (I forbid) • The Romans later developed a dictatorship and

then emperors ruled the empire.

Triumvirates

• 1st Triumvirate • Julius Caesar, Pompey, Crassus

• 2nd Triumvirate• Octavian, Marc Antony, Lepidus

Greek Philosophers

• Socrates- sentenced to death for corrupting the minds of the youth.

• Plato- Wrote “The Republic” a utopian government

• Aristotle- Wrote Politics, Taught Alexander the Great

SocratesPlato Aristotle

Greek Historians

• Herodotus- Father of History ( We love Herodotus)

Wrote about the Persian War

Thucydides- Wrote about the Peloponnesian War

Herodotus Thucydides

Greek Scientist

• Euclid- Invented Geometry• Pythagoras- A2 + B2 = C2• Archimedes- Worked with volume• Hippocrates- Father of medicine

Euclid Pythagoras

Archimedes Hippocrates

Greek Playwrights

• Aeschylus- Father of Tragedy• Sophocles- Oedipus Rex• Aristophanes- Wrote Comedy

AeschylusSophocles Aristophanes

Famous Romans

Julius CaesarMurdered by the Senate on March 15 44 BC1st Roman Dictator

Augustus Caesar 1st Roman Emperor

Julius CaesarAugustus Caesar

Greek and Roman Religion

• Greeks were polytheistic. The Greeks used mythology to explain things. The Romans were taught the Greek Gods by the Etruscans. The Romans used the same Gods but gave them different names. As the Roman Empire declined, Christianity became the official religion.