Classical Greece

Classical GreeceChapter 5: Section 1Do Now: Find a partner and discuss HW answers

Obj: Identify the ways geography and climate shaped Greek lifeExplain the rise and development of the Mycenaean civilizationDescribe how Homer and Greek myths contributed to early Greek culture

HW: Active Read 5.2Main Ideas #3-5 Critical Thinking #6VocabMycenaean HomerTrojan WarDorianEpicMyth

The SeaGreeks did not live on land, but around the seaMost Greeks had to travel less than 85 miles to reach the seaImportant trade routes Greece has little natural resources

The Land of Greece covered in rugged mountainsTravel very difficult across landDivided Greece into several small communitiesKept Greece from ever truly uniting as one countryGroup of Greek speaking people Very little arable land

Mycenaean Civilization2000 B.C.E.Group of Indo-European people settled on the Greek mainland1500 B.C.E. Mycenaeans discover the importance of sea trading Travel to Egypt, Anatolia, Italy, Crete , and SyriaMycenaean culture mixes with Minoan culture and formed core of Greek religion, politics, art, and literature

Trojan War -1200 B.C.E.Mycenaean's wage war on coastal city of Troy (Anatolia)Legend talks about going to war because a Greek kings wife, Helen, was stolen by a Trojan PrinceUnable to penetrate high city walls of TroyGreeks take over the city by hiding in a giant hollowed out horse Trojans believe it is gift from the Gods, bring it inside the city walls; at night the Greeks slip out and destroy the citybeware Greeks bringing gifts

Dorian Rule- 1150- 750 B.C.E.After Trojan war Mycenaean's begin to declineThe Dorians move into Greece\Much less advanced then MycenaeansForget how to use written languageLeads to period of oral histories, called epicsHomer and his EpicsFamous Greek historian named Homer (blind man) Tells Greek history with long narrative poems celebrating heroic deeds

Trojan war is backdrop for one of most famous epic; the Iliad (Read excerpt)

Primary SourceMy dear husband your warlike spirit will be your death. Youve no compassion for your infant child, for me, your sad wife, who before long will be your widow..As for me, it would be better, if Im to lose you, to be buried in the ground.Great Hector replied, Wife, all this concerns me, too. But Id be disgraced, dreadfully shamedif I should slink away from war, like a coward. For I have learned always to be brave, to fight alongside Trojans at the front, striving to win great fame for my father, for myself. - HOMER, the Illiad (translated by Ian Johnson) Greeks Create MythsWhat are myths? What are their purpose?

Traditional stories about their godsCreated myths to understand the mysteries of nature Example: Changing of the seasonsAttributed human like qualities such as love, hate, and jealousy to the godsThe gods lived forever atop of Mount Olympus

http://thanasis.com/store/olympian.htmArable land suitable for farming