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The Golden Age of Greece - Coggle Diagram

- - - - wealthy citizens
        
        sponsored the production
      - writers
        
        submit plays to the city leader
      - city leader
        
        chose the best plays
      - actors
        
        plays assigned by the city leader
        
        all men
        
        colorful costumes and masks
      - award prizes to the best writers (when play is performed)
    - - presented the downfall of an important character
      - common themes: love, war, and hate
      - e.g.:Seven Against Thebes
    - - humorous dramatic work
      - made fun of politics, important people, and ideas of the time
      - usually ended happily
    - - 450 to 388 B.C.
      - great writer of comedy
      - Birds
        
        mock people who strive to gain power
  - - - portray objects realistic
      - create a sense of order, beauty, and harmony in every work
    - - created by Phidias
        
        asked architects to make temple for Athena
        
        decorated with sculptures of themes of Athena's life
      - used gold and ivory
      - 30+ feet tall
      - placed in Parthenon
  - - - colonnade
        
        placed around the outside of a building
    - - triangular space between the top of a colonnade and the roof
- - - - government become more open and fair
    - - United States
  - - - famous Greek philosopher
      - examine ideas by asking people question after question
      - enemies brought him to trial on charges of causing young people to rebel
        
        sentenced to death
    - - 427 to 347 B.C.
      - writings were dialogues
        
        between Socrates and other people
        
        explored many philosophical question
        
        started important school of higher learning
        
        Academy
        
        stayed open for 900 years
    - - Plato’s brightest studen
      - 384 to 322 B.C
      - opened school called Lyceum
      - his writings are based on the classes he taught
      - spent three years tutoring Alexander the Great.
- - - - astronomer and mathematician Eratosthenes
        
        circumference around earth
      - Aristarchus
        
        tried to prove that the earth revolves around the sun
        
        tried to estimate the size of the sun
      - astronomer Ptolemy
        
        supported the idea earth was the center of the universe
        
        created a mathematical system explaining it
  - - - geometry
        
        study of lines, angles,
        circles, and other forms
        
        Euclid
        
        book called elements
        
        basis of geometry courses
      - Archimedes
        
        invented compound pulley
        
        lift water for the irrigation of fields
        
        ideas used to build pumps
      - Hypatia
        
        female mathematician
        
        astronomer
        
        wrote about works of Ptolemy and geometry
        
        lead physilogical movement