Day 2 Presentations

Today in class we continued presenting our presentations on Ancient Greece. My group went first and we presented on Pericles and the Golden Age. I thought we did pretty well trying to explain things instead of just trying to just read right off the slide. After we went Zaire, Karson, and Jayla presented on Hoplites& Triremes: Warfare. These are the notes:

- Hoplite most common type of heavily armed foot soldier in Ancient Greece
-Armor made of bronze and other weapons
-1/3 to 1/2 of men were able to fight and buy needed materials
-Men up to 60 were called to fight
-Weapons included the Doru and Xiphos
-Used Phalanx formation
-Triremes which were ancient boats used by many civilizations
-Was a dominant warship and played a vital role in the Persian Wars
-Triremes were large in sized but were light enough to carry the crew back to shore.
-Rowers of the ships weren't slaves. They were free men

After they presented Chesca, Jessica and Alyssa presented on Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. These are notes for that presentation:
-Socrates classical greek philsopher
-Plato wrote about Socrates
-Socratic Method- series of questions are asked to help a person stimulate ideas.
-Aristotle- 384- 322 B.C.E
-Focused on the concept of logic
- Made contributions to physics, biology, logic, zoology etc..
Plato- 428 B.C.E in Athens
-Socrates was his mentor and guide
-Socratic Dialogue finding during time of 12 years in Italy, Egypt studying geometry and astronomy.
-Republic is his most influential work
-Influenced the importance of mathematics

The last presentation given today was by Alex and Arthur on Art and Architecture. These are the notes for that presentation:

-Three main orders which are Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian
-Doric looks simplest, formal and austre
-Ionic recognized by volute capital
-Slender/more organized
-Corinthian order is the most decorative (flowers& scrolls)
-more important the building used Corinthian
-Sculpture used to depict battles of mythology and rulers
-Made from marble
-Classical period- skill of sculptor dramatically increased
-Hellenistic period- peak of Greek sculpture- more realistic and natural