Ancient greece

ANCIENT GREECE

Nayra Bertol Encinas 1ºBMónica Rodríguez Caballero 1ºB

ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES• Long distance tradeRich merchants had ships, and sailed across the Mediterranean Sea. They sold products from Greek towns and imported food, wood and copper.Used silver coins called drachmas.

• Local commerceThere were small shops in Greek cities. Peasants went to the cities to sell their crops.Craftsmen sold their products in commercial transactions.

• CraftsThe Greeks made pottery, whichthey exported to other parts ofthe world. Also worked with leather andtextiles.

• AgricultureThey grew vines, wheat and olives. They worked the land with sickles

and ploughs.Many farms were very small.

Life in Ancient GreekChildrens:

Boys:The boys stayed at home, helping in the fields, sailing and fishing, at age of 6 or 7, they went to school.

Girls:Girls stayed at home until the were married. Like they mother they could attend certain festivals, funerals and visitsneighbors for short periods of time. Their job was to help their mother, and to help in the fields, if necessary. 

Rocking horse BallYo-yo Miniature rattle

Men:They ran the government, and spent a great deal of their time away from home. When not involved in politics, the men spent time in the fields, overseeing or working the crops, sailing, hunting, in manufacturing or in trade.For fun, in addition to drinking parties, the men enjoyed fight, horseback riding, and the famous Olympic Games.

Women:Greek women had very limited freedom outside the home. If they had their husband's permission, they could attend weddings, funerals, some religious festivals, and visit female neighbors for short periods of time. But without their husband's permission, they could do none of these things. They could not leave the house.In their home, however, Greek women were in charge! Their job was to run the house, make the clothes, and have children. Most Greek women did not do housework themselves. Most Greek households had slaves. Female slaves cooked, cleaned, and worked in the fields. Male slaves watched the door, to make sure no one came in when the man of the house was away, except for female neighbors, and acted as tutors to the young male children.

CROPSThey grew olives, wheat, and vines.

Yes I think that Greek products were appreciated, because the olives are very famous, wheat is a cereal and a lot of people eat cereals.

GREEK TEMPLE

PLAN OF A GREEK TEMPLE

ORDERS IN GREEK ART

Doric: The simplest columns.

They have a crown made of a circle topped by a square. The shaft (the tall part of the column) is plain and has 20 sides.The Doric order is very plain, but powerful-looking in its design. The area above the column, called the frieze, had simple patterns. Above the columns are the metopes and triglyphs. The metope is a plain, smooth stone section between triglyphs. Sometimes the metopes had statues of heroes or gods on them. The triglyphs are a pattern of 3 vertical lines between the metopes.

Ionic: The Ionic style is a little more decorative than the Doric. Ionic shafts were taller than

Doric ones. This makes the columns look slender. They also had flutes, which are lines carved into them from top to bottom. The shafts also had a special characteristic: entasis, which is a little bulge in the columns make the columns look straight, even at a distance. The frieze is plain. The bases were large and looked like a set of stacked rings. Ionic capitals consist of a scrolls above the shaft.

Corinthian: Is the most decorative. Corinthian also uses

entasis to make the shafts look straight. The Corinthian capitals have flowers and leaves below a small scroll. The shaft has flutes and the base is like the Ionian. Unlike the Doric and Ionian cornices, which are at a slant, the Corinthian roofs are flat.

Doric OrderThe Pathenon

The Hephaisteion

Ionic Order

Corinthian Order

The Temple of Athena Nike

The Little Rock AME Zion Church 

The Temple of the Sybil

 The Charlotte City Hall

Archaic Period

Rigid and unnatural.2 types: Kore: female figureKouros: male figureFEMALE

MALE

Classical PeriodIdeal beautyDiscobelusBy Myron

Hellenistic PeriodEmotional and dramaticA Trojan priest

Hades had a seat on Mount Olympus, the magical mountain on which all the main gods, the Olympians, lived. But Hades don´t live in Olympians. Hades was not the lord of death. His job was to run the Underworld. Hades had everything he needed. He had an invisible helmet, which he liked very much. He had a golden chariot, which was his pride and joy. He had his faithful and deeply loved companion, his three-headed dog, Cerberus. He was perfectly content. At least he was content, until he fell in love with the beautiful Persephone. 

HADES

AphroditeAphrodite was the exception to the Greek God family tree. Some say her parents were unknown, and that she was born of sea foam. Others, like the poet Homer, said she was a daughter of the mighty Zeus, king of all the gods. No one knows quite where to place her on the Greek God family tree. However she was born, Aphrodite was the goddess of love and beauty. She was an essential element of many Greek myths.

“THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS”

PlatoPlato:A Greek philosopher.Plato was born around May 21 in 428 or 427 B.C. He saw tripartite structures in the world around him. His social structure theory had a governing class, warriors, and workers. He thought the human soul contained reason, spirit, and appetite.

AristotleAristotle:A Greek philosopher.Aristotle was born in the 384-322 B.C.E. A student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. Aristotle was student of Plato

“THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS”

GREEK THEATREPARTS Scene

TheatreParodsOrchestra

KINDS OF PLAYSTragedies: The first type they invented was the tragedy. In tragedies, one or more major characters always suffered a disastrous end. Comedies: Comedies were invented next. In comedies, plays always had a happy end. Satires: Satires were plays that made fun of mortal legends and of real people. In ancient Greece, you did not poke fun at the gods - not in a play, not in real life, not ever. But you could poke fun at your leaders. And that was uniquely Greek. Satires in ancient Greece were often political in nature, and could indeed affect people's opinions about current events.  

Authors: Homer, Sophocles, Aristrophanes

GREEK ALPHABETThe Greek alphabet is over 2500 years old. People living in Greece today use this alphabet to make words, just as we use our alphabet to make words. The Greeks traded with the Phoenicians.  When they saw the Phoenicians writing things down, they thought that was very clever.  The Greeks could easily see the usefulness of a written language. They changed the Phoenician alphabet a bit to suit themselves. For one thing, they added vowels. The Greek alphabet was the first alphabet to include vowels. 

One of the many gifts we received from ancient Greece was our  alphabet with vowels. The word "alphabet" is a made-up word that combines the first two letters of the Greek alphabet - alpha and beta - alphabet. Like the ancient Greeks before us, we made some changes. We changed the look of the letters. We changed the way we said the letters out loud. Over time, we even changed the order of the letters. In our English alphabet, the first three letters are ABC. In the Greek alphabet, the first three letters are ABG 

GREEK ALPHABET

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