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Classical Age Art, Laws, and Religion
Greek and Roman Examples
Greek Doric Column
Greek Ionic Column
Greek Corinthian Column
Where have you seen examples of these
columns present in our society today?
Ionic University of Virginia
Corinthian University of Virginia
Roman Colosseum
Aerial View of the Colosseum
Pantheon
Pantheon Interior
Discobolos (The Discuss Thrower) Greek Sculpture
Roman statues
Greek law
• Oligarchy- Rule of the few• Democracy- Rule of the many (Athens)• Sparta- Set up like a military camp
Roman Law• Roman Republic- Elected representatives • Patricians- made up the Senate• Plebians- made up the Army• Two consuls were chosen every year. They ran
the government and the army. The praetor was in charge of civil law.
• Law of the twelve tables- Laws written down so everyone could understand them.
• Council of Plebians- Veto (I forbid) • The Romans later developed a dictatorship and
then emperors ruled the empire.
Triumvirates
• 1st Triumvirate • Julius Caesar, Pompey, Crassus
• 2nd Triumvirate• Octavian, Marc Antony, Lepidus
Greek Philosophers
• Socrates- sentenced to death for corrupting the minds of the youth.
• Plato- Wrote “The Republic” a utopian government
• Aristotle- Wrote Politics, Taught Alexander the Great
SocratesPlato Aristotle
Greek Historians
• Herodotus- Father of History ( We love Herodotus)
Wrote about the Persian War
Thucydides- Wrote about the Peloponnesian War
Herodotus Thucydides
Greek Scientist
• Euclid- Invented Geometry• Pythagoras- A2 + B2 = C2• Archimedes- Worked with volume• Hippocrates- Father of medicine
Euclid Pythagoras
Archimedes Hippocrates
Greek Playwrights
• Aeschylus- Father of Tragedy• Sophocles- Oedipus Rex• Aristophanes- Wrote Comedy
AeschylusSophocles Aristophanes
Famous Romans
Julius CaesarMurdered by the Senate on March 15 44 BC1st Roman Dictator
Augustus Caesar 1st Roman Emperor
Julius CaesarAugustus Caesar
Greek and Roman Religion
• Greeks were polytheistic. The Greeks used mythology to explain things. The Romans were taught the Greek Gods by the Etruscans. The Romans used the same Gods but gave them different names. As the Roman Empire declined, Christianity became the official religion.
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