ANCIENT

GREECE
 GREEK
ARCHITECTURE
 Greece Flag

GEOGRAPHY
 ANCIENT GREECE

PENINSULA

GEOGRAPHY
INFLUENCES OF GEOGRAPHY:

1.) ISOLATED CULTURES

ATHENS VS SPARTA
INFLUENCES OF GEOGRAPHY:

2.) TRADING
 INFLUENCES OF GEOGRAPHY:

3.) EXPERT SEA SAILING

 GEOLOGY

METEORA
LAVRION SILVER MINES:
 GEOLOGY

THE CLIMATE IN GREECE IS TYPICAL OF THE

MEDITERANEAN CLIMATE: MILD AND RAINING
WINTERS, RELATIVELY WARM AND DRY
SUMMERS. GENERALLY SUNNY THROUGHOUT
MOST OF THE YEAR
 BRIEF HISTORY
OF ANCIENT GREEKS
 THE FIRST TWO
CIVILIZATION OF
ANCIENT GREECE THAT
INFLUENCED AEGEANS
MINOANS
MYCENAEANS

TROJAN WAR
 HELLENIC
GREECE
BY THE EIGHT CENTURY B.C. THE CITY STATE
(POLIS) EMERGED AS THE BASIS OF GREEK
SOCIETY,
 ‘H e llene s ‘Graeci
’
a’
‘He
llas
’

Greek Roman
Persia VS Ancient Greece
 THE RISE OF ATHENS

After the defeat of Persia the city of Athens rose to

dominate Greece. ts powerful navy allowed it to defend
and extend its empire. It became considerably wealthier
and more populated than Sparta. It became famous for
being the home of Democracy and the philosopher
Socrates.
The rule of Pericles (444-429 B.C.) marked the climax of
Athenian prosperity, and the tremendous outburst of
building activity in reconstruction which was to express
the ultimate development of Hellenic art and
architecture.
PELOPONNESIAN WAR
P L A U G E A N D D E F E AT F O R AT H E N S
 HELLENISTIC
GREECE

UNDER PHILIP II, FROM MACEDONIA, THE UNIFICATION

OF GREECE WAS ACCOMPLISHED,AND FIRMLY
ESTABLISHED UNDER HIS SON, ALEXANDER THE GREAT
WHO THEN EMBARKED ON NATIONAL CRUSADE AGAINST
PERSIA.
RELIGION
PRINCIPAL GREEK DEITIES

ZEUS
Supreme God, Ruler of the Sky
PRINCIPAL GREEK DEITIES

HERA
Wife of Zeus, Goddess of Marriage
PRINCIPAL GREEK DEITIES

APOLLO
G o d o f l a w a n d r e a s o n , a r t m u s i c , p o e t r y, f o u n d e r o f
cities
PRINCIPAL GREEK DEITIES

POSEIDON
God of Sea
PRINCIPAL GREEK DEITIES

ARTEMIS
Goddess of Hunt
PRINCIPAL GREEK DEITIES

DIONYSOS
God of wine, feasting and revelry
PRINCIPAL GREEK DEITIES

DEMETER
Goddess of Earth and Agriculture
PRINCIPAL GREEK DEITIES

ATHENA
Goddess of wisdom and learning
PRINCIPAL GREEK DEITIES

APHRODITE
Goddess of love
PRINCIPAL GREEK DEITIES

HEPHAESTUS
God of Fire, flame forge God of Handicrafts
PRINCIPAL GREEK DEITIES

ARES
G o d o f Wa r
PRINCIPAL GREEK DEITIES

HERMES
Messenger of the Gods
 AEGEAN
ARCHITECTURE
ARCHITECTURAL
CHARACTER

MINOANS
The foremost extant Mycenaean building is the Treasury of Atreus,
a "beehive tomb" at Mycenae. (Beehive tombs were erected by
various ancient cultures of Eurasia.) The arch above the entrance,
as well as the walls of the tomb itself, feature corbelled construction
(see Corbelling). The Treasury of Atreus was the world's largest
purely domed space (i.e. a domed space lacking additional supports,
such as columns) prior to the Pantheon
ECHNIUS- The convex or
projecting moulding, resembling the
shell of a sea urchin, which supports
the abacus of the Greek Doric
captial, sometimes painted with the
egg and dart ornament
NEREID
MONUMENT
Typifies ionian sculptural
luxuriance and the use in Greek Asia
Minor of a temple form of tomb,
elevated on a high podium. The
entablature lacks a true frieze, but the
architrave is sculptured and there are
other bas-relief frieze on the podium.

*podium- continuous pedestal, also the

enclosing platform of the arena of
amphitheatre.