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Characteristics of Early Greece
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-(1100-800 B.C.)-"The Dark Ages"
-Moved from bronze to iron. -Art Style: geometric-dependent on Mediterranean (and Egyptian) styles. -Homeric Epics -(800-600 B.C.) "Age of Colonization" Greeks spread throughout Asia Minor ad Italy. -(600-480 B.C.) "Archaic Period" Emergence of permanent architecture. |
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Characteristics of Classical Greece
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-(479-404 B.C.) "Golden Ages" or "Age of Pericles" Artistic achievements.
-(404-323 B.C.) "Late Classical Period" Alexander the Great. |
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Characteristics of Hellenistic Greece
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-(323-146 B.C.)
-Culture spread throughout the known world. |
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Rationalism
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Theory that the exercise of reason becomes the primary basis for knowledge.
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"Philosophy"
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The love of wisdom
(note: not knowledge) |
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Diogenes
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-Most colorful Greek philosophies
-Alexander-"If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes. |
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"Man is the measure of all things."
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Protagoras
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Materialists
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-Concerned with the origins and nature of material reality.
-Early philosophers said all thing were made up of either earth, wind, water, or fire. -Late philosophers said all things were made up of atoms (Greek word: atomos) |
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Idealists
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-Searching for the cosmic blueprint or rational design.
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