so today we worked on our papers and here is a sneak peak of out thesis :

In Ancient Greece the Gods and Goddesses played an important role in the Greek society. Each Greek God and Goddess was in charge of a different job, they all had their own powers as well. There were the good Gods and Goddesses who stayed together but they also had enemies.If Greece did not have these Gods or Goddesses the world today would be very different.

I was not in class today because I was sick hope you are gonna have on your trip Mr.Schick!

In class  we went over how to write a correctly typed paper so we can correctly write our 1000 word essay on our Greek topics and it really helped

here is some of the notes i took today from all the power points that we presented in class  

greek life was centered around religion

frieze

- a  friezeis a long narrow band of sculptures that run along a boarder

Doric columns are very sturdy they are very plain

pantheon - temple for athen parthons

ionic - are much thinner and more elegant

erectheum ionic order built between 421 - 405 BC

 corinthian columns are seldomly used in ancient Greece

building began in the 6th century

The ancient Greeks built great temples and sanctuaries to their gods

They held festivals in their honour, with processions, sports, sacrifices and competitions

The picture to the right is called, Hephaisteion, it is temple in Athens that was built for the god Hephaistos and the goddess Athena 

• with Hippias gone, Isagoras and Cleisthenes (both were aristocrats - surprise!) engaged in a power struggle
• Isagoras had support from some fellow aristocrats, plus from Sparta
• Cleisthenes had support of the majority of Athenians

• Isagoras becomes archon eponymous (tyrant)
• He ostracizes Cleisthenes
• Cleisthenes’ supporters - and the ordinary Athenian citizens! - revolt against Isagoras’ tyranny
• they trap Isagoras on the acropolis for two days - on the third day he fled and was banished
• 508 BCE !  Yes

• Cleisthenes - definitely a member of the elite
• very rich
• insulated from the “hoi polloi”
• a crafty politician

tyrants seize control
- sometimes aristocrats who are on the outside would form alliances with hoplits (well armed soldiers) and set up a alternative form of government called tyranny
- tyrant: someone who rules outside the framework of the polios
modern meaning of tyrant: an abusive   or oppressive ruler
- the Greek meaning of tyrant : someone who seized power on their own (usually hoplite help)

clash of the tyrants
- hippias as who ruled form 527 to 510 BCE
- his brother was murdered and his rule became harsh
eventually he was  (ostracized)

- in revenge he began working with the Persian king Darius, helping them invade marathon

Today in class and we worked on our project for the second day, I think things are going very well and we are going to do very well. My group is really keeping things together and doing really well on the project and working together well.

Today in class we went over the new project that we have a couple to weeks to do. the people in my group are Sammi  and Callie. Our topic is Greek Gods and Goddess. I think we will do very well on the project.

Today we took a quiz in Mr.Schick's class. it was a surprise, I did well I only got 2 wrong and it should help pull up my grade in his class.

we also took some notes:

• Greek oral traditions- stories passed on by word of mouth 
• homer lived at the end of the "Greek dark ages" 
• he composed stories of Trojan war C 750-700 BCE 
• the Iliad- probably one of the last conquest of the Mycenaean (the Trojan war)
• the odyssey - Odysseus attempt to return home, being thwarted by the angry God of the sea, P Poseidon  
• the odyssey was 12,110 lines of the dactylic hexameter 

the Homeric question 

• homer may have been mythical creation 
• a blind wandering minstrel; and heroic figure

Iliad and Odyssey maybe the culmination of many generations of story telling or... homer actually existed and was just that awesome 

• was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosophercredited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. 

• Socrates was born circa 470 BC, in Athens, Greece. We know of his life through the writings of his students, including Plato and Xenophon.
• Socrates married Xanthippe, a younger woman, who bore him three sons—Lamprocles, Sophroniscus and Menexenus.
• Athenian law required all able bodied males serve as citizen soldiers, on call for duty from ages 18 until 60.
• ecause these writings had other purposes than reporting his life, it is likely none present a completely accurate picture. However, collectively, they provide a unique and vivid portrayal of Socrates's philosophy and personality.

The Acropolis 


Athens is known as the birth place of democracy when the people of Athens rose up and ruled out the tyrant who had ruled them around 500 BC. The Acropolis is not a single building but a number of temples build on a hill overlooking Athens



Temple of Olympian Zeus 


 Construction began in the 6th century BC during the rule of the Athenian tyrants, who envisaged building the greatest temple in the ancient world, but it was not completed until the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century AD some 638 years after the project had begun.

Erechtheum
 
he Erechtheum is an ancient Greek temple of Ionic style on the north side of the Acropolis of Athens. The temple as seen today was built between 421 and 407 BC. The temple is probably most famous for its distinctive porch supported by six female figures known as the Caryatids, who served at supporters. 

• Note the significance of Greece’s location  

Greece is a country located in Southern Europe, its mainland located at the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula.

• Describe Greece’s topography

About four-fifths of Greece is mountainous, including most of the islands. The most important range is the Pindus, which runs down the center of the peninsula from north to south.

Look at Greece’s surroundings

• How would all this affect their culture?

The soil is not very good for growing things, there are a lot of mountains that make it hard to walk from one place to another, and there is never enough fresh water. Because of this, people did not settle in Greece as early as they moved to Egypt and the Fertile Crescent.

What bodies of water surround Greece?

Adriatic sea

Aegean sea

What large island is to the south/southeast?

(you may need to go online to find out)

Cyclades island  

Describe where Athens and Sparta are located relating to the sea, and to each other

Sparta is at the end of Adriatic sea right on the edge and Athens is right on the edge of Aegean sea

Mesopotamia - Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

Egypt - Nile River

India - Indus River

China - Huang He River