Greek culture and Roman culture

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Greek culture and Roman culture

• Greek culture
  • The historical context
    • 1200B.C Trojan war
    • 5th century B.C high point of development
    • 4th centuryB.C under the rule of Alexander,King of Macedon
    • 146B.C the Romans conquered Greece
  • Social and political structure
    • democracy
      • the whole people:only the adult male citizens
    • economy
      • slave labour
    • sports
      • Olympic Mount
      • Olympic Games
      • 1896 amateur sport competition
  • Homer 700B.C
    • Iliad
    • Oddyssey
  • Lyric Poetry叙事诗
    • Sappho
      • woman,love poem
    • Pinda
      • ode celebrating
  • Drama
    • Aeschylus(525-456B.C)
      • Prometheus Bound
      • Persians
      • Agamemnon
        • showing heroes
        • written in verse
        • vivid character portrayal
    • Sophocles(496-406B.C
      • Oedipus the King
      • Electra
      • Antigone
        • targic art
    • Eruripides(484-106B.C)
      • Andromache
      • Medea
      • Trojan Women
    • Comedy
      • Aristophanes
        • Frogs.Clouds,Wasp,Birds
          • loose in plot
          • satirical in tone
          • parody acute criticism
    • History
      • Herodotus(484-430B.C)
        • Father of history
        • wars between Greeks and Persians
      • Thucydides(460-404(B.C)
        • the wars between Athens and Sparta
    • Philosophy and science
      • Pythagoras
        • the founder of science mathematics
        • abstract conceptions
        • Pythagorean
      • Heracleitus
        • fire is the primary element of the universe
      • Democritus
        • atomic structure of matter
      • Socrates
        • was recorded by Plato in Dialogues
        • dialectial method 辩证法
      • Plato (Idealism唯心主义）
        • Apology
        • Symposium
        • Repubic
      • Aristotle
        • the great humanist and man of science
        • different from his teacher Plato
          • A:drect observation of nature
            • P:subjective thinking
          • A:form and matter together make uo concrete individial realities
            • p: ideas have a higher reality
        • Poetics
    • Contending Schools of Thought
      • Sophists诡辩学派
        • Protagoras
          • man is the measure of all things
      • Cynics(dog)
        • Diogenes
          • reject all conventions
      • Sceptics
        • Pyrrhon
      • Epicureans
        • Epicurus
          • pleasure is the highest good in life
      • Stoics
        • Zeno
    • Science
      • Euclid
        • Elements
          • a textbook of geometry
      • Archimedes
  • Art,Architecture,Sculpture and pottery
    • Art
    • Architecture
      • Parthenon
        • Doric style
          • monotonous
        • Ionic style
          • graceful and elegant
        • Corinthian style
          • ornamental luxury
    • Sculpture
      • Discus Thrower
      • Venus de Milo
      • Laocoon group about 125B.C
    • Pottery
      • function
        • domestic needs and needs for foregin trade
      • technique
        • Black-Red figure paintings
      • theme
        • mythological scences
    • Impact
      • Spirit of innovation
        • beauty,creativity,freedom
      • Supreme Archievement
      • Lasting effect
• Roman culture
  • Romans and Greeks
    • the burning of Corinth in146B.C，marked Roman conquest of Greece
      • Latin western ，Greek eastern
    • common
      • democracy
      • religion
      • languages
    • difference
      • The Romans built up a vast empire
        • Greeks didn't
      • The Greeks enoyed an artistic and intellectual inheritance
  • Roman history
    • before 27B.C republic
    • 27B.C the Roman empire
      • Octavius Augustus
      • divided the history of Rome into two periods
    • Two centuries later reached its greatest extent
      • the famous Roman legions
      • bureaucracy
      • Roman law(civil war)
    • In the 4th century，the emperor Constantine moved the capital from Roman to Byzantium，named it Constantinople
    • After 395 the empire was permanently divided into East and West
    • In 476 the last emperor of the West was deposed by the Goths and this marked the end of the WestRoman empire
    • In 1453 the East Roman empire collapsed
  • Roman literature
    • Prose
      • Marcus Tullius
        • oratory and fine writing style
        • Ciceronian
      • Julius Caesar
        • Commentaries
        • I came，I saw ，I conquered
    • Poetry
      • Lucretius
        • On the nature of things
      • Virgil
        • the greatest of Latin poets
  • Architecture，Painting，Sculpture
    • Architecture
      • The Pantheon
        • the greatest and the best perserved Roman temple
      • Pont du Gard
      • The Colosseum
        • a masterpiece of engineering
    • Painting
    • Sculpture
      • Constantine The Great
        • the first Christian emperor
      • Spoils from the Temple in Jerusalem
      • She-Wolf
        • the legend of creation of Rome