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Tradtional Education in Athens |
When they wrote, they had no punctuation and no spaces between words, reading was always done out loud |
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Schools and Teachers |
Boys begin to attend school at 7 years old to about 14 years old. Teacher was called a grammatistes |
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Paidagogos |
School boys would be accompanied by a slave called a paidagogos. |
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Music |
Music was also an imortantpart of schooling. The most important aspect of Greek education was the memorization of poetry. Greeks beleve that the study of music was imortant to learn the "classics" as well as for the balance of harmony it instilled into a civilized person. All the education learned was called mousike |
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Images of schooling |
Tondo- circular work of art on the inside base of an Attic red figure cup |
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The Palaistra |
Wrestling school. The instrctor was called a paidotribes. Athenian men could be called on for military support b/w the ages of 18-60 |
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Sophists |
Rhetoric- the act of arguing persuasively Oratory- the art of public speaking |
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Protagoras |
He befriend Pericles in Athens. He claimed truth was subjective |
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Teaching of the Sophists |
It was now more important to persuasively argue any side of an argument that to find the truth. The goal of the teaching of Sophists was to produce successful statesmen rather than moral, well behaved men. |
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Socrates |
Was a teacher not a sophist. He was interested in what was true and moral. He wasn't interested in what was useful and practical. Sophists claimed to know everything, Socrates claimed that the first men had to understand that they were ignorant before they could really know a thing. The Delphic oracle claimed he was the wisest of men, he alone was aware of his ignorance. His main teaching practice was having conversations, and he wrote nothing himself |
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The Teachings of Socrates |
His chief method of teaching by having conversation was asking questions, and generate thought about the subject. He often started with "What s trurth? or what is goodness?. This is called the "Socratic Method". He praised Sparta. Two most important ideas are virtue is knowledge and virtue is sufficient for happiness. |
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The Death of Socrates |
Many Athenians didn't like his virtue talk. He died by drinking hemlock. He was found guilt for corrupting the youth and of impiety |
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Isokrates |
He was a sophist,but probably the greatest, and very likely the most influentia. Isocrates established a school in his house in Athens, near the Lykeion. He thought the Athenians were intellectually smarter than everyone else. He wished to bring about "Panhellenism" lead by educated men |
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Isokrate's Ideal |
Thought people were called Greeks not because their location of birth but b/c ppl share in our education |
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Science, Mathematics, and Philosphy |
Ionian thinkers such as Thales and Herakleitos had asked waht the world is made out of. Interested inPhysics, astronomy, and pre-history. Science and technology began to be neglicted in the mid 5th centrury. The Greeks wanted theoretical not practical knowledge. |
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Anaxagoras and Demokritos |
Anazagoras was a theoretical thinker. He also became friends with Percles. He studied the moon was made of earth, and unserstood light rays. Yet this was all theoretical and not proveable. Likewise, Demokritos believed that matter was made up of tiny particles. He coldnt prove it |
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Plato |
Socrate's pupil was Plato. He was a mathmetician and a philosopher. His main concern is ethics. Wrote the republic. Believed women could rule. Hated democracy. Had his own school called The Acedemy. Plato wrote about series of debates and conversations. |
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Xenophon |
Xenophon was Socrate's pupil. Fought as a mercenary for the Personans. He wrote 5 Socratic works and dialogues. Wrote Symposium, Apology, Memorabilia (the longest) |
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Plato's theory of ideal forms |
The concept of forms claimsthat reality cannot be perceived with the senses, only the mind |
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Plato's concept on dualism |
Humans had immortal souls and mortal bodies.He argued that humans should seek out that divine order by striving to have the rational overcome the irrational |
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Plato and the study of Music |
Music has ryhtymn and harmony, which is iportant to all aspects of life. |
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Plato and Mthematics |
The greeks sed letter for numbers |
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Pythagoras |
It was through the stidy of mathematics and geometry that the study of the physical earth as a body in space was develped. It was the Pythagorean school which is credited for discovering the hypotenuse theorem, and irrational numbers. |
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Herakleides and Astronomy |
A pupil of Pluto was Keraledies. He studied at the Acedemy. He studied the motion of the stars in the sky due to the rotation of the earth |
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Aristotle |
student of Plato, teacher of Alexander the great |
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Aristotle;s studies |
studies animals |
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Aristotle's ideas of justice and goodness and the "Golden Mean" |
Aristotle argued that a person may know what is right in his hear heart, but his physical desires may lead him to act wrongly. The golden mean means the mind should strike the perfect balance. Intelligence is the finest human quality, and the mind should be the true self, the godlike part of the person |
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Medecine |
MAny of Artistole;s ideas about the human body were wrong (especially women).Hippocratic Oath- doctors must swear stating that they will heal and not harm him |
