Ending of Greece ppt

Today we finished up the Greece powerpoint and got assigned a project. I took decent notes on today. These are the notes I took today:

Athenians and Spartans Go To War

  • People hated Athens because they were growing
  • Hatred between Athens and Sparta
  • 431 BC: Sparta declared war on Athens
Peloponnesian War
  • Athens had the stronger navy
  • Sparta had the stronger army
    • Location could not attacked by sea
  • Sparta marched to Athenian territory
    • Swept country side and burnt food supply in Athens
  • 2nd year struck disaster in Athens
    • Plague swept through the city, knocking 1/3 of the population
  • 421 BC: Sparta and Athens signed a truce
Sparta Gains Victory
  • 415 BC-- Athens sent 20,000 soldiers to Sicily
    • was to destroy Syracuse, Spartas wealthiest allie
  • 404 BC: Athens surrenders
Philosophers Search For Truths
  • Philosophers- "lovers of wisdom"
  • The universe (land, sky, and sea) is put together in an orderly way, and subject to an absolute and unchanging laws 
  • People can understand through logic and reason
Sophists
  •  Group of philosophers questioned peoples unexamined beliefs and ideas about justice and other traditional values.
1) Socrates
  • looked to science and logic (not the mythological gods) for explanation on how the world works
  • the Socratic Method fostered critical thinking 
  • "The unexamined life is not worth living"
  • Socrates was charged with serious crimes 
    • impiety (disrespecting the gods)
    • corrupting the youth of Athens
  • at his trial, he descended himself as a stinging gadfly, and as Athens as a lazy old horse
  • did not deny what he had done, asked for free dinners
  • found guilty by an Athenian jury, and sentenced to death by drinking poison hemlock 
2) . Plato carries on
  • Plato was a student and follower of Socrates
  • He wrote out Socrates' teachings and described them in his trial Apology
  • Republic was Socrates' discussion of justice and the ideal state-- one of the most influential books on philosophy ever written
3) Aristotle-- so ambitious
  • Aristotle was a student of Plato
  • he helped foster the idea of Athens as an intellectual destination
  • his school, the Lyceum, focused on cooperative research- building on knowledge gathered from all over the world
did Aristotle invent the Internet?
  • not exactly, but he did dream of having the sum of mankind's knowledge easily occured in one location
  • he wrote on topics such as...
    • logic-physics-biology
    • ethics-politics-rhetoric
    • motion- theatre- poetry
    • metaphysics- psychology- dream---- and on and on
  • he also tutotred Alexander the Great
    • lived his life off of 2 books
      • ILLIAD
      • ODYSSEY

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