Sunday, April 10, 2011

Presentations 3



Emily Stasuk - 96 (had very good information for notes and interesting)
  1. How did he meet Plato?
  1. Did Socrates sort of create public schools?
  1. What was democratic thinking?
  • Socrates
    • Mother was a midwife
    • Collected random data from subjects that he met
    • Asked people questions that angered people
      • What is wisdom?
      • What is beauty?
      • What is the right ting to do?
    • Proposed radical thinking
    • Non democratic thinking made people angry
    • Charges against him
      • Corruption of the young's mind
  • Peloponnesian war
    • Between Sparta and Athens
    • Athenians lost
    • Socrates against war
  • Trial
    • Socrates sentenced to death
      • Poisoned with Hemlock
    • 500 people that  voted whether he was guilty or not.

Rachel Weskalnies - 98 ( made it interesting, took time to make a Parthenon, and had a video

  1. Why were temples built to see from the outside?
  1. Why do they have different orders of  Greek architecture ?
  2. Why did they build the Parthenon in Doric order, was there a reason?
  • Built temples, tombs, stadiums…
  • Doric Order
    • Plain , sturdy, heavy columns
    • Parthenon
  • Ionic order
    • Lender, scroll like
  • Corinthian order
    • Ornate, bell shaped tops decorated
  • Still used in home today




Elena Fernandez- 92 ( had a lot of information on specific poets, could have had more about the culture and how it was affected )
  1. What time period was Iliad an Odyssey written?
  1. What time period was the new testament written
  1. Who was the first European poet ?
  • Attend poetry readings
  • Some poets this was there job, others did it for fun
  • Archilious
    • Wrote a poem so mean that the father and daughter that it was about hung themselves
  • Homer was the first European poet
  • Hesiod
    • Very little is known about is life
    • No records
  • Pindar
    • 44 of his poems are preserved
  • Sappha
    • First women poet
    • Wrote about disputes with her brothers


Cole Alban- 95( did a good job, knew his information well, very interesting)
  1. Why whas the Age of Pericles aka golden age of Greece?
  1. Why did they call it that is the first place?
  1. What is the  Achremedes screw
  • Age of Pericles aka golden age of Greece
  • Pericles was an aristocrat
    • Started and ended the Golden age
    • Built the Parthenon
      • On the acropolis
      • Become a cultural center of Greece
      • Built on the ruins of temples that were burned down 20 years before
    • Started Peloponnesian War
  • Had many scientific breakthroughs
    • Achremedes screw
    • Aqueducts and Bridges 

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