Division One
Romans and Greeks
Marked Roman Conquest Of Greece:The Burning Of Crinth In 146B.C.The Roman Empire
Western: Latin Eastern: Greek
Similarity
Idea: citizens-assembly,hostile to monarchy and to servility Religion
One big difference:The Romans built up a vast empire.
Roman History
Two Periods:
Before the year 27B.C. :Republic In the year 27B.C. : Emperor
peace lasting 200 years
In the middle of the third century B.C.Roman law
In the 3rd century
The empire began to decline.In the 4th century renamed it Constantinpole
In 395
West and East
In 476
The end of the West Roman Empire In 1453
The East Roman Empire collapsed
Latin Literature
Prose
Marcus Tullius Cicero(106-43B.C.)Julius Caesar(102/100?-44B.C.)Poetry
Lucretius(about 93-50B.C.)Virgil(70-19B.C.)
Architecture
The Pantheon
Pont du Gard The Colosseum
Painting
Sculpture
Impact
Spirit of Innovation Supreme Achievement
Lasting Effect
Art,Architecture,Sculpture and Pottery
Architecture Parthenon Acropolis Sculpture
Discus Thrower Venus de Milo Laocoon group
Philosophy and Science
The greatest names in European philosoph
Socrates(about 470-399 B.C)
Plato(about 428-348B.C)Aristotle(384-322B.C.)
Contending Schools of thought
Sophists Protagoras
"man is the measure of all things.
Cynics Diogenes
monarchyself-sufficiency and extreme simplicity in life
Sceptics Pyrrhon
not all knowledge was attainable
Epicureans
Epicurus
freedom from pain and emotional upheaval
Stoics
Zeno
Duty is the most important thing in life.
Science
Euclid Archimedes
History
Herodutus(484-430B.C.):"Father of History"Thucydides(460-404B.C.):"the great historian that ever lived"(Macaulay called)
Drama
Three great tragic dramatists
Aeschylus(525-456B.C.)
Sophocles(496-406B.C.)Euripides(484-406B.C.)
Comdey
Aristophanes(450-380B.C.)
Lyric Poetry
Sappho and Pindar
Homer
The author of their epics
The Iliad and the Odyssey:about great men and war of a remote age(1200-1100B.C.)
Social and Political Structure
Athens : A democracy
"The whole people":only the adult male citizens
Economy:slave labour
The Olympic Games:once every four years(revived in 1896)
The Historical Context
Around 1200 B.C. (war)Greece and Troy(destruction)In the 5th century B.C.
a high point of development
In the second half of the 4th century B.C.
Alexander,King of Macedon
In 146 B.C.
the Romans conquered Greece
II.ROMAN CULTRUE
I.GREEK CULTURE

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