3.4 Greek Culture (part 1)

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3.4 Greek culture

The Olympic game started in Ancient Greece

What do we call a meeting of citizens to discuss politics?

1. Democracy
2. Ostracism
3. Assembly
4. Citizenship

What was the main cause of Sparta's strength?

Goals for this lesson

At the end of this lesson you...

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

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

Ancient Olympic Sports

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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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.

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 4

www.greeka.com

Goals for this lesson

At the end of this lesson you...

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

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