Test Review

Today in Class we reviewed for the test on Greece tomorrow. Emily Kenedy also presented her project today. Her project was on Alexander's Conquest. The 3 questions from her presentation are: What battle did Alexander the Great loose? (trick question) Who was his tutor? How many kingdoms was him empire divided into after he died? I give her project a 98%. We took notes on what were reviewed in class. We reviewed the three architectural orders: Doric, Corinthian, ionic. The Parthenon has the Doric order. The frieze is a long stretch of painted, sculpted or even calligraphic decoration (on Parthenon, painted normal people). 

 People started revolting against their leader 508 BC. The ancient greek sculupures made out of Lime stone, bronze, and marble. There are 5 forms of greek art: architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Painted pottery, and music. The 3 big philosophers were Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.  knowledge was important to Socrates, he  looked at the big picture; right and wrong, good and evil. He asked people questioned; it became known as Socratic method. He was charged with impiety(not respecting the gods and corrupting the youth of Athens. He died from Hemlock poisoning - sentenced to death at age 70.  He felt that what he did was right, and that he should be rewarded instead of punished. Plato was one of Socrates Students. The Allegory of Plato's cave is Socrates describes a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them, and begin to ascribe forms to these shadows. According to Socrates, the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to viewing reality. He then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall do not make up reality at all, as he can perceive the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners. Aristotle was Plato's student.  He was the founder of logical theory. Aristotle believed that the greatest human endeavor is the use of reason in theoretical activity.He wanted Athens to be the one "place" where people could come and exchange knowledge.  We also talked about battles. Sparta started the Peloponnesian war, Sparta won. In Greeks Poets and Poetry there are 3 main categories: Drama, tragedies, comedy. They preformed their plays in theaters; big area, seats carved out of the hillside with a skene behind them. In the breakthrough in math and science, Aristarchus calculated how many miles the earth was around the circumference.