reading guide and questions
reading guide questions -
1. How did Pericles strengthen democracy?
Pericles strengthened democracy in Athens by paying public officials. Pericles expanded the empire by building a strong naval fleet. Pericles rebuilt and beautified Athens. Athenian democracy, art, and architecture set standards that remain influential in the world today.
2. What steps did Pericles take to strengthen the empire and glorify Athens?
Pericles used money from the Delian League treasury to make the Athenian navy the strongest. To glorify Athens he also used money from the Delian league to buy gold, ivory, and marble. He higher sculptors, architects, and artists to make beautiful sculptors surrounding Athens.
3. What themes were common in Greek tragedy?
Tragedy dealt with the big themes of love, loss, pride, the abuse of power and the fraught relationships between men and gods. Typically the main protagonist of a tragedy commits some terrible crime without realizing how foolish and arrogant he has been.
4. What do the themes of Greek comedies suggest about the men and women of Athens?
Showed freedom of the democratic Athens; made fun of politics, respected people, and ideas of the time. That women had more power over men.
5. What was Plato’s vision of the ideal society?
The Platonic ideal society as it is in the dialogue of The Republic is a society in which each part functions its purpose by following the noble lie, which is a myth that each person is created from gold, silver, and bronze, and each element varies between each individual so that there could be a division between producers, soldiers, and philosophers who rule the society by understanding the forms.
6. What is the philosophic legacy of Aristotle?
Aristotle's philosophy, logic, science, metaphysics, ethics, politics, and system of deductive reasoning have been of inestimable importance to philosophy, science, and even business. His theories impacted the medieval church and continue to have significance today
Terms -
- direct democracy: a form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly. This differs from the majority of currently established democracies, which are representative democracies.
- classical art: in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for a classical period, classical antiquity in the Western tradition, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate.
- tragedy: an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe.
- comedy: the style or genre represented by comedy films, plays, and broadcast programs.
- Peloponnesian War: The Peloponnesian War was an ancient Greek war fought by the Delian League led by Athens against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. Historians have traditionally divided the war into three phases
- philosopher: a person engaged or learned in philosophy, especially as an academic discipline.
- Socrates: Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought.
- Plato: Plato was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought, and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
- Aristotle: Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He was the founder of the Lyceum and the Peripatetic school of philosophy and Aristotelian tradition. Along with his teacher Plato, he has been called the "Father of Western Philosophy"
Using your notes -
2. Which of Pericles’ goals do you think had the greatest impact on the modern world? Explain your choice.
He introduced direct democracy which allowed more people to be involved. We look at Athenian democracy to help improve and make our own. I chose this because I feel like Athens was the closest thing to the modern world that we have today and that would make the most sense.
Main Ideas-
3. What steps did Pericles take to strengthen democracy in Athens?
Pericles strengthened democracy in Athens by paying public officials. Pericles expanded the empire by building a strong naval fleet. Pericles rebuilt and beautified Athens. Athenian democracy, art, and architecture set standards that remain influential in the world today.
4. What were the battle strategies of Athens and Sparta in the Peloponnesian War?
He increased the number of officials that were paid salaries
5. Why do you think some Athenians found the ideas of Socrates so disturbing?
The ideas probably would have come off as crazy or against the laws at the time.
1. How did Pericles strengthen democracy?
Pericles strengthened democracy in Athens by paying public officials. Pericles expanded the empire by building a strong naval fleet. Pericles rebuilt and beautified Athens. Athenian democracy, art, and architecture set standards that remain influential in the world today.
2. What steps did Pericles take to strengthen the empire and glorify Athens?
Pericles used money from the Delian League treasury to make the Athenian navy the strongest. To glorify Athens he also used money from the Delian league to buy gold, ivory, and marble. He higher sculptors, architects, and artists to make beautiful sculptors surrounding Athens.
3. What themes were common in Greek tragedy?
Tragedy dealt with the big themes of love, loss, pride, the abuse of power and the fraught relationships between men and gods. Typically the main protagonist of a tragedy commits some terrible crime without realizing how foolish and arrogant he has been.
4. What do the themes of Greek comedies suggest about the men and women of Athens?
Showed freedom of the democratic Athens; made fun of politics, respected people, and ideas of the time. That women had more power over men.
5. What was Plato’s vision of the ideal society?
The Platonic ideal society as it is in the dialogue of The Republic is a society in which each part functions its purpose by following the noble lie, which is a myth that each person is created from gold, silver, and bronze, and each element varies between each individual so that there could be a division between producers, soldiers, and philosophers who rule the society by understanding the forms.
6. What is the philosophic legacy of Aristotle?
Aristotle's philosophy, logic, science, metaphysics, ethics, politics, and system of deductive reasoning have been of inestimable importance to philosophy, science, and even business. His theories impacted the medieval church and continue to have significance today
Terms -
- direct democracy: a form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly. This differs from the majority of currently established democracies, which are representative democracies.
- classical art: in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for a classical period, classical antiquity in the Western tradition, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate.
- tragedy: an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe.
- comedy: the style or genre represented by comedy films, plays, and broadcast programs.
- Peloponnesian War: The Peloponnesian War was an ancient Greek war fought by the Delian League led by Athens against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. Historians have traditionally divided the war into three phases
- philosopher: a person engaged or learned in philosophy, especially as an academic discipline.
- Socrates: Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought.
- Plato: Plato was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought, and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
- Aristotle: Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He was the founder of the Lyceum and the Peripatetic school of philosophy and Aristotelian tradition. Along with his teacher Plato, he has been called the "Father of Western Philosophy"
Using your notes -
2. Which of Pericles’ goals do you think had the greatest impact on the modern world? Explain your choice.
He introduced direct democracy which allowed more people to be involved. We look at Athenian democracy to help improve and make our own. I chose this because I feel like Athens was the closest thing to the modern world that we have today and that would make the most sense.
Main Ideas-
3. What steps did Pericles take to strengthen democracy in Athens?
Pericles strengthened democracy in Athens by paying public officials. Pericles expanded the empire by building a strong naval fleet. Pericles rebuilt and beautified Athens. Athenian democracy, art, and architecture set standards that remain influential in the world today.
4. What were the battle strategies of Athens and Sparta in the Peloponnesian War?
He increased the number of officials that were paid salaries
5. Why do you think some Athenians found the ideas of Socrates so disturbing?
The ideas probably would have come off as crazy or against the laws at the time.
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