3.0 The Greeks: introduction

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AGE 2. The Time of Greeks and Romans

Ancient Greece: the cradle of European civilisation

Chapter 3: Ancient Greece

3.1: Meet the Greeks

• When we study the Greeks, we mostly study the period known as "Classical Antiquity", 500 - 323 BC (see timeline p. 55).
• Many stories we know from the Greeks originate from a much older period, even going back to 2000 BC.
• We call these stories myths. 
• All myths together form the Greek mythology

What do you know about Ancient Greece?
Give one word answers.

Ancient Greece is still a part of our indentity

Everybody has an identity. It's what makes you who you are 

and what makes you different from someone else

What is part of your IDENTITY?
(key words)

Everybody has more than one identity. 

We have many personal identities, but we also

 have many group identities.

Give an example of a group that you belong to.

Being part of a group connects us. 

It makes us feel we belong together.

Your nationality
(the country where you are from)
is also part of your group identity.

1. correct
2. wrong

You are a European.

That is also part of your group identity

1. correct
2. wrong

Your task

The next slides each show a picture of something from MODERN Europe.

In a group you must discuss the question:

What is the link of this picture to ancient Greece?

Then you come up with a group answer.

1.

Which word links the picture to the Ancient Greeks?

2.

Which word links the picture to the Ancient Greeks?

3. stadhuis Groningen

Which word links the picture to the Ancient Greeks?

4.

Which word links the picture to the Ancient Greeks?

5.

Which word links the picture to the Ancient Greeks?

6.

Which word links the picture to the Ancient Greeks?
(not coins or money)

6.

Which word links the picture to the Ancient Greeks?
(not coins or money)

7. a scene from "Harry Potter"

Which word links the picture to the Ancient Greeks?
(not coins or money)

Now discuss in your group:

What if.....the ancient Greeks had not existed?

The Greeks shaped our modern European and western culture and identity.

Drag the Greek inventions to their modern counterparts.

storytelling

the Olympic Games

democracy

the alphabet

the name Europe

theaters and plays

architecture

science and mathematics

Now discuss in your group:

What did you learn in this lesson about Greece and the European identity?
Use at least 5 examples to illustrate your answer.

Greek Mythology

• A Greek myth is a magical story involving Greek gods,   monsters and heroes.
• The stories are made up but: they have a "life lesson" (be   brave, respect the gods, etc.)
• they may be based on a true event (for example: the Trojan   War)
• Until 800 BC these myths were passed on by oral tradition.   Later, they were written down.

congratulations