3.4 Greek Culture (part 1)

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3.4 Greek culture (part 1)

The Olympic game started in Ancient Greece

Recap answer the following questions

• What is the agora?
• What is the acropolis?
• Draw a social pyramid, use metoiks, slave and citizens
• Why did the ancient Greeks have colonies?
• What is a hoplite?

Goals for this lesson

At the end of this lesson you...

• understand the main characteristics of Greek culture such as sport, mythology, architecture. 
• Give examples of the sports events, Gods and archtitecture
• Know the difference between a tragedy and a comedy

Ancient Olympic Sports

Modern Olympic games (33 sports)

206 national teams

Ancient Olympic games in Olympia (19 sports)

Medals in the modern games

A crown for the winner of the Ancient games

Greek architecture

• Greeks built many temples with pillars. 
• Temples were decorated with stories about the gods.

Which of the following Dutch buildings was inspired by the Greek style?

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Egyptian statue

Greek statue

Egyptian statue

Egyptian statue

Greek theatricals

• Two types of theatre:
• Comedy
• Tragedy 
• Stories about gods

Olympic gods

• 12 gods that lived together on mount Olympus.
• Gods acted like humans including flaws.
• Gods were often in conflict with each other.

Work time

Work on your Gods' assignment

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Mythology

• Myth= story about gods and half-gods.
• Goal of myths= explaining how the world worked.
• Every myth has a moral of the story

Time to work on assignment 3

Do exercise 6 and

Finish the myth

Goals for this lesson

At the end of this lesson you...

• understand the main characteristics of Greek culture such as sport, mythology, architecture.

Have a nice day