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Section 1 OverviewThis section discusses the culture of the ancient Greeks as expressed in their religion, literature, and art.
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Focusing on the Main Ideas
The Culture of Ancient Greece
• The Greeks believed that gods and goddesses controlled nature and shaped their lives.
• Greek poetry and fables taught Greek values.
• Greek drama still shapes entertainment today.
• Greek art and architecture expressed Greek ideas of beauty and harmony.
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Locating Places• Mount Olympus (uh·LIHM·puhs)
• Delphi (DEHL·FY)
Meeting People• Homer (HOH·muhr)
• Aesop (EE·SAHP) • Sophocles (SAH·fuh·KLEEZ)
• Euripides (yu·RIH·puh·DEEZ)
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Building Your Vocabulary• myth (MIHTH)
• fable (FAY·buhl) • drama (DRAH·muh)
• oracle (AWR·uh·kuhl)
• epic (EH·pihk)
• tragedy (TRA·juh·dee) • comedy (KAH·muh·dee)
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Greek Mythology• The Greeks believed in many gods and
goddesses.
• The Greeks believed the 12 most important gods lived on Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece.
• They thought these deities affected people’s lives and shaped events.
• Greek myths were stories about gods and heroes.
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Greek Mythology• In these stories, gods had special
powers but looked and acted like humans.
• They hoped that the gods would grant good fortune to them in return.
• The Greeks followed rituals to win the gods’ favor.
• The Greeks believed in prophecy, or predictions about the future.
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Greek Mythology• Many Greeks visited an
oracle to receive a prophecy.
• The most famous oracle was at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.
• An oracle was a sacred shrine where a priest or priestess spoke for a god or goddess.
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Greek Poetry and Fables• Greek poems and stories are the oldest
in the Western world and serve as models for European and American poems and stories.
• An epic is a long poem about heroic deeds.
• The first great epics were the Iliad and the Odyssey, written by a poet named Homer.
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Greek Poetry and Fables• The Iliad is about a battle for the city of
Troy.
• The Odyssey is the story of Odysseus, a Greek hero.
• Greeks believed these two epics were real history.
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Greek Poetry and Fables
• A fable is a short tale that teaches a lesson.
• Fables were passed from person to person by oral tradition.
• A slave named Aesop wrote many fables.
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Greek Drama
• The Greeks used drama as part of their religious festivals.
• The Greeks developed two types of drama— tragedies and comedies.
• Drama is a story told by actors who pretend to be characters in the story.
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Greek Drama
• A comedy is a story with a happy ending.
• Aeschylus was a writer who wrote a group of three plays called Oresteia.
• A tragedy is the story of a person who tries to overcome difficulties but fails.
• These plays teach that evil acts cause more evil and suffering.
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Greek Drama
• Euripides wrote plays about real-life people instead of gods.
• Aristophanes wrote comedies that made fun of leading politicians and scholars.
• The Writer Sophocles wrote the plays Oedipus and Antigone.
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Greek Art and Architecture
• Although Greek murals have not survived, examples of Greek paintings still exist on decorated pottery.
• The most important architecture in Greece was the temple dedicated to a god or goddess.
• Greek artists believed in the ideas of reason, balance, harmony, and moderation and tried to show these ideas in their work.
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Greek Art and Architecture• The most
famous temple is the Parthenon.
• Greek architecture included columns, which were first made from wood.
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Greek Art and Architecture• Later, the Greeks began using marble.
• Many of today’s churches and government buildings have columns.
• Greek sculpture expressed Greek ideas.
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