1、U1_mainGet StartedText StudySupplementary ResourcesGet Started_ mainGet StartedGet Started1.A General Introduction2.Focus In Get Started_1.1Get StartedGet Started_1.2Get Started Greek culture dates back to the Neolithic Age(about 4000 BC).By its Bronze Age(about 2800 BC),Greek culture had come to a
2、stage of substantial development in view of its ability to produce useful tools and articles and weapons in bronze,as were evidenced by the unearthed artifacts in the neighborhood of the Aegean Sea.The Aegean Civilization or the Stone and Bronze Age Civilization was thus shaped and included Cretan C
3、ivilization and Mycenaean Civilization,which appeared subsequently,with a high level of cultural development,as was demonstrated in its architecture,art and crafts as well as the pictographic script which had been used widely.Get Started_1.3Get Started After the Dorian invasion,Greece was further di
4、vided into a number of tribes before they were organized into the city-states.The ancient Greek economy heavily depended on slave labor,the most popular resource for production at that time,and laid the foundation for the success of Greek culture.In the 5th-4th centuries BC,the slave-based democracy
5、 politics in Athens reached its peak during Pericles reign,providing a comparatively free environment for the development of Greek culture.However,split occurred between the two strongest city-states and wars among most poleis caused the decline of Greek Civilization,and it was conquered by Roman Em
6、pire before 146 BC.Get Started_1.4Get Started Historically,Greek culture is of a rich variety,lasting value and wide influence around the world.Under the administration of the city government and its stimulation on cultural exchange,cultural prosperity rose up in architecture,philosophy,literature,a
7、rts and sports.Such an intellectual climate hence led to the emergence of a number of famous philosophers,artists and historians who produced their remarkable contributions to Greek Civilization.Get Started_2.1Get StartedlTo get a brief view of the history and development of Greek CivilizationlTo be
8、 familiar with Greek culture in mythology,religion,philosophy,history,literature and artslTo know some representative philosophers and their contributions Text Study _mainText StudyText StudyI.The Early Period of Greek CivilizationII.The Development and the End of Greek Civilization III.Greek Cultur
9、eText Study _I_1.1Text StudyMain IdeasMain IdeasAgesStagesCharacters&Cultural AchievementsPre-historical AgeStage 1:Cretan Civilization(5000 years ago)l2600 BC2000 BC,the Neolithicl2000 BC1600 BC,social classes appeared;Minosa unified country from smaller city-states.lDuring 1600 BC1125 BC,Minoan Dy
10、nasty was weakened and toppled.Text Study _I_1.2Text StudyMain IdeasMain IdeasPre-historical AgeStage 2:Mycenaean Civilization(ended in the 12th century BC)Mycenae was a country where slaves were commonly used in agricultural and handicraft production.Mycenaean culture benefited much from Cretan cul
11、ture on its social and economic development.Heroic Age The period is between the coming of the Greeks to Thessaly and the Greeks returning from Troy and culminates in the Trojan War.The Trojan War had helped to produce two famous epics,Odyssey and Iliad.Text Study _I_1.3Text StudyMain IdeasMain Idea
12、sDark Age1200 BC800 BCIt was peopled with many legendary names like Hercules,Ajax,Achilles and Agamemnon.Golden Agethe 8th the 4th century BCIt can be divided into three periods:the archaic period,the central period and the period of dependence.Text Study _I_2.1Text StudyInterpretation of Cultural T
13、ermsInterpretation of Cultural TermsThe Neolithic 新新石石器器时时代代:It is a period in the development of human technology,beginning in about 9500 BC in the Middle East that is traditionally considered the last part of the Stone Age.The Neolithic is a measured progression of behavioral and cultural characte
14、ristics and changes,including the use of wild and domestic crops and the use of domesticated animals.Text Study _I_2.2Text StudyInterpretation of Cultural TermsInterpretation of Cultural TermsMinos 米米诺诺斯斯:In Greek mythology,Minos was a king of Crete,son of Zeus and Europa.After his death,Minos becam
15、e a judge of the dead in Hades.The Minoan Civilization of pre-Hellene Crete has been named after him by the archaeologist Arthur Evans.Text Study _I_3.1Text StudyComprehension ExercisesMultiple choice.(1)_ is the major foundation in the Western culture and makes a powerful impact on the development
16、of human civilization.A.Ancient European cultureB.Ancient Greek cultureC.Ancient Chinese cultureD.Ancient Egyptian cultureComprehension ExercisesA.the Neolithic AgeB.the Bronze AgeC.the Stone and Bronze AgeD.the Old Stone AgeText Study _I_3.2Text StudyComprehension Exercises(2)Greek culture can date
17、 back to_.Comprehension ExercisesMultiple choice.A.farmingB.handicraft and tradeC.religionD.philosophyText Study _I_3.3Text StudyComprehension Exercises(3)Mycenaean culture was influenced the most by Cretan culture on _.Comprehension ExercisesMultiple choice.A.the Heroic Age B.the Golden Age C.the C
18、retan Civilization D.the Mycenaean CivilizationText Study _I_3.4Text StudyComprehension Exercises(4)The Trojan War broke out at the end of _.Comprehension ExercisesMultiple choice.A.archaic B.central C.dependentD.darkText Study _I_3.5Text StudyComprehension Exercises(5)The first Olympiad began in th
19、e _ period of the Golden Age.Comprehension ExercisesMultiple choice.Text Study _I_4.1Text StudyThink and DiscussGive a brief introduction to the Trojan War and check references to know more about the war.The Trojan War broke out at the end of the Mycenaean Civilization.All the city-states in Mycenae
20、 sent troops to help form a coalition army for the battles.Not long after the war,the Dorians from the northwest of Greece invaded and destroyed Mycenae in about the12th11th centuries BC.Think and DiscussText Study _I_4.2Text StudyThink and DiscussIntroduction from Wikipedia:In Greek mythology,the T
21、rojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans(Greeks)after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus,the king of Sparta.The war was among the most important events in Greek mythology and was narrated in many works of Greek literature,including the Iliad and the Odyssey by Hom
22、er.The Iliad relates a part of the last year of the siege of Troy,while the Odyssey describes the journey home of Odysseus,one of the Achaean leaders.Other parts of the war were toldThink and DiscussText Study _I_4.3Text StudyThink and DiscussThink and Discussin a cycle of epic poems,which has only
23、survived in fragments.Episodes from the war provided material for Greek tragedies and other works of Greek literature,and for Roman poets like Virgil and Ovid.The war originated from a quarrel between the goddesses Athena,Hera,and Aphrodite,after Eris,the goddess of strife and discord,gave them a go
24、lden apple,sometimes known as the Apple of Discord,marked“for the fairest”.Zeus sent the goddesses to Paris,who judged that Aphrodite,as“the fairest”,should receive the apple.In exchange,Aphrodite made Helen,the most beautiful of all Text Study _I_4.4Text StudyThink and DiscussThink and Discusswomen
25、 and wife of Menelaus,fall in love with Paris,who took her to Troy.Agamemnon,the king of Mycenae and the brother of Helens husband Menelaus,led an expedition of Achaean troops to Troy and besieged the city for ten years because of Paris insult.After the deaths of many heroes,including the Achaeans A
26、chilles and Ajax,and the Trojans Hector and Paris,the city fell to the ruse of the Trojan Horse.The Achaeans slaughtered the Trojans(except for some of the women and children whom they kept or sold as slaves)and desecrated the temples,thus earning the gods wrath.Few of the Achaeans returned safely t
27、o their homes andText Study _I_4.5Text StudyThink and DiscussThink and Discussmany founded colonies in distant shores.The Romans later traced their origin to Aeneas,one of the Trojans,who was said to have led the surviving Trojans to modern-day Italy.The ancient Greeks thought the Trojan War was a h
28、istorical event that had taken place in the 13th or 12th century BC,and believed that Troy was located in modern-day Turkey near the Dardanelles.By modern times both the war and the city were widely believed to be non-historical.In 1870,however,the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann excavated
29、a site in this area which he identified as Troy;this claim is now accepted by most scholars.Text Study _I_4.6Text StudyThink and DiscussThink and DiscussWhether there is any historical reality behind the Trojan War is an open question.Many scholars believe that there is a historical core to the tale
30、though this may simply mean that the Homeric stories are a fusion of various tales of sieges and expeditions by Mycenaean Greeks during the Bronze Age.Those who believe that the stories of the Trojan War derive from a specific historical conflict usually date it to the 12th or 11th century BC,often
31、 preferring the dates given by Eratosthenes,1194 BC1184 BC,which roughly corresponds with archaeological evidence of a catastrophic burning of Troy VIIa.Text Study _I_1.1_pop1.1Text StudyMain IdeasMain IdeasText Study _I_1.1_pop1.2Text StudyMain IdeasMain IdeasText Study _I_1.2_pop2Text StudyMain Id
32、easMain IdeasText Study _I_1.2_pop3Text StudyMain IdeasMain IdeasText Study _I_1.2_pop4Text StudyMain IdeasMain IdeasText Study _I_1.3_pop5Text StudyMain IdeasMain IdeasText Study _I_1.3_pop6Text StudyMain IdeasMain IdeasText Study _I_1.3_pop7Text StudyMain IdeasMain IdeasText Study _I_1.3_pop8Text
33、StudyMain IdeasMain IdeasText Study _I_1.3_pop9Text StudyMain IdeasMain Ideas Since the 8th Century BC,Greece stepped into an important period when iron tools were universally used as a substitute for bronze.With further coastal economic development,the city-states were founded one after another,num
34、bering more than a hundred altogether in either Dorian or Ionian dominance.Among them,Athens and Sparta were the most developed and powerful.Later Miletus became an even larger and more important city than Athens after the Persian conquest of Asia Minor in the 6th century BC.In politics,the newly fo
35、unded city-states were usually ruled by the slave-owning aristocrats or kings who were formerlyText Study _II_1.1Text StudyMain IdeasMain IdeasText Study _II_1.2Text StudyMain IdeasMain Ideasformerly military leaders.But some states could be ruled by the archons such as Draco and Solon,Peisistratus
36、and Cleisthenes,etc.,who would proceed with their reforms.Thus it led to a period of business and patriarchal aristocratic democracy.There were two legislatures during that period:one was the general assembly,known as the Ecclesia which passed policies,and the boule led by ten archons enforced them;
37、the other was the supreme council which supervised and checked the behavior of the local officials and teachers.The strength of the system was the highly democratic features which controlled the power of aristocrats.Greek Civilization came to its peak during Pericles reign and then began to decline,
38、during which two wars broke out with profound meanings.One is the war between Greek city-states and Persian invaders(499 BC449 BC).The victory laid the foundation for the development and prosperity of Greece.However,peace and stability did not last long after the victory because a split occurred bet
39、ween the two strongest city-states(459 BC404 BC),thus leading to the decline of Athens and most poleis involved in the war.Till 146 BC,the regions of Greek Peninsula and Aegean Sea islands were all seized and conquered by Roman troops and merged into the map of Roman Empire.Text Study _II_1.3Text St
40、udyMain IdeasMain IdeasText Study _II_2.1Text StudyInterpretation of Cultural Termsostracism 陶陶片片放放逐逐制制:In ancient Greece,when a citizen was considered dangerous to the state,he would be banished for a certain number of years as a punishment,decided by popular votes.Now it relates to any social excl
41、usion.Interpretation of Cultural TermsText Study _II_2.2Text StudyInterpretation of Cultural TermsThebes 底底比比斯斯:A Mycenaean city,located in east-central Greece,northwest of Athens.It was at the height of power and splendour in the 4th century BC.In 336 BC it was ruined by Alexander the Great.Interpr
42、etation of Cultural TermsText Study _II_2.3Text StudyInterpretation of Cultural TermsSparta 斯斯巴巴达达:an ancient Greek city-state of Dorian Greeks in the southeast Peloponnesus，which was widely known for its military power,and reached its peak in the 6th century BC when Sparta defeated Athens in the Pe
43、loponnesian Wars(460404)and then became the leader of the union of Greek city-states before it was toppled by the Thebans in 371 BCInterpretation of Cultural TermsText Study _II_2.4Text StudyInterpretation of Cultural TermsInterpretation of Cultural TermsText Study _II_2.5Text StudyInterpretation of
44、 Cultural TermsJustinian I(Justinian the Great)查查士士丁丁尼尼一一世世:The emperor of Byzantium who resisted the Persian aggression at the eastern frontier of his empire and then re-occupied the former Roman territories in Africa,Italy and Spain.Eastern Orthodox Christians respects him as a saint.Interpretatio
45、n of Cultural TermsText Study _II_2.6Text StudyInterpretation of Cultural TermsCleon克克里里昂昂（?422 BC):One of the Athenian political and military leaders during the Peloponnesian War.He was the first prominent example of the commercial class who was considered as a warmonger and demagogue by his contem
46、poraries.Interpretation of Cultural TermsText Study _II_2.7Text StudyInterpretation of Cultural TermsPericles 伯伯利利克克里里(c.495 BC 429 BC):A famous and influential Athenian leader.He was called“the first citizen of Athens”by Thucydides,a historian.His reign(461 BC429 BC)was known as the“Age of Pericles
47、He promoted the literature and arts and built many buildings.For this reason,Athens became the educational and cultural centre of ancient Greece.Furthermore,Pericles made contribution to the Athenian democracy.Interpretation of Cultural TermsText Study _II_3.1Text StudyComprehension ExercisesPleas
48、e match the following names of political leaders to their reformist ideas.(1)Draco(2)Cleisthenes(3)Peisistratus(4)Solon(5)Periclesa.supreme council check the behavior of leadersb.punish trivial crimes with the death sentencec.abolish slave labor d.carry out legislative reforme.advocate peasants welf
49、are and popular entertainmentsComprehension ExercisesText Study _II_4.1Text StudyThink and DiscussHow did the ancient Greek Civilization develop in its long history?Firstly,early period of Greek Civilization:the development of Cretan and Mycenaean Civilization.Secondly,with the development of econom
50、y,many city-states were founded.Aristocratic rulers were trying to proceed their reforms in politics and legislations,which led to the prosperity of Greek Civilization.Last,after two wars,Greek Civilization came to its end.Think and DiscussText Study _II_1.1_pop1Text StudyMain IdeasMain IdeasText St
