3/30

Today in class i started the video on Greece, i got about 40 minutes into it

3/27

Today in class we worked on our papers. It took me 15 minutes to finish my part of the project. I had done the thesis statement and three paragraphs that totaled 374 words

3/26

today in class we worked on our papers, my paper is already over 500 words out of 1000

3/25

Gods and Goddesses
what is unique about the Greeks relationship with their Gods is the interaction with humans
Posidon interfered with odysses coming home
aphrodite had lovers of both men and gods
dionysis was son of zues

zues is ruler of heaven, father of athena, god of sky, weather, thunder, law, order, and justice
athena is goddess of wisdom, warfare and peace

Apollo - God of music, arts, knowledge, healing
zues was his father and artimis was his twin sister

3/23

Today in class we went over how our essay should be written.

3/19

With hippias gone, isagoras and Cleisthenes engaged in a power struggle
isagoras had support from fellow aristocrats and sparta
cleisthenes had support from the majority of Athens
Isagoras wins
He ostracized Cleisthenes
Clesithenes followers revolt, making isagoras flee
508 BC- first time regular people rebelled agaisnt their leader
Cliesthenes takes over
very rich
insulated from the "hoi polloi"
hoi polloi means commoners

3/18

Transformation of Goverment
During 6th and 7th century BC, aristrocites ran the show in Greece.
Rich people held more influence in society and had more govermental power
Meet in Symposiums
An exclusive club
-no women
-no middle class
-certainly, no slaves

Tyrants seize control
Tyrants: someone who rules outside the framework of the polis
modern meaning- an abusive or opressive ruler

Hippias was a tyrant from 527-510 BC
his brother was murdered and his rule became harsh
he was thrown out of Athens
in revenge he worked with the persian king, and helped invade Marathon

3/16

Today in class we worked on our project. I finished my part of the project on Sparta. It was a good part of the project.

3/12

James Jack and Colin
Athens, Sparta, and the Peloponnesian war

3/11

Greece is on a mountianous peninsula
3/4 of Greece is mountians
about 1400 islands in the adratic, ionian and agean seas
they had many skilled sailors and ship builders and farmers
"sea people" invaded Mycean
dorians took over

Homer the storyteller
The lliad- probably one of the last conquests in the trojan war
The odyssey- Odysseus attempted to return home from war, being threatend by posidon
The odyssey was 12,110 lines of dactylie heyameter

the "homeric question" may have been a mythological creature
a blind wondering
lliad and odyssey may have been generations of story telling
or maybe he did exist

3/9

i was not in class today

3/6

Aristotle 384-322 BC
Born in Stagira, Greece

At 18, he joined Plato's academy and remained there until he was 37
He wrote about things like physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government. 
He taught Alexander the Great
He was considered to be the first scientist 
His work contains some of the first form of the study of logic
He encouraged the catholic church

3/5

the acropolis

It was used for goverment meetings, they're are more than one.


olympia

The olympia was important for Greece. It was the building used to start the olympics

temple of poseidon

this temple honoredthe God of the sea, poseidon

3/4

Today in class we talked about how cyber day's work. And we also talked about our last cyber day. That's pretty much all we did in class

3/2

greece is surrounded by water, not just a river. They can use it for military and shipping reasons.
greece is surrounded by the aegean sea and the adriatic sea
the large island to the southeast of greece is the aegean islands
Athens is close to water,
Sparta is surrounded by land
they relate by being the two super powers of ancient greece