Sunday, February 28, 2010

Greek Philosophers

Philosophy is the rational look on how the world works and acts. the study of the principles of knowledge, being, or conduct.


The three famous Greek Philosophers are Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.                                                         Socrates
Socarates was born in 469 BC and died in 399 BC. He was a "Classic Greek Philosopher". He was Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. He was ugly, but didn't think of himself as ugly. He was a soldier, and we think he became a general.he had a high opinion of women, more so the other people. He was executed for Harisy, and corruption. He wasn't afraid of death. he died of hemlocks, which was a cruel death. "an unexamined life is not worth living" was his most notable quote.

Timeline:
400 BC - In Plato's hands in 400 BC, they became an inspired form of philosophic discourse, meant to challenge ...
 399 BC
399 BC - In 399 BC, Socrates was with friends when he drank the hemlock and uttered his last words. In death, as in life, Socrates was surrounded by people who were totally devoted to him: who loved, respected, and admired him. His comrades wanted him to run away to safety ...



399 BC - The Tyrant Archelaus: In 399 BCE, the same year that Socrates died, a tyrant named Archelaus was killed by a boyfriend while on a hunting trip. The LIFE of Archelaus appeared to embody the ideal of unlimited power and unbridled pleasure. It would have been ...
399 BC - SOCRATES is one of the imperishable figures who have become symbolic. The real man, the citizen of Athens who was born about 469 and executed in 399 BC, shed most of his personality as he entered history and became for all eternity a 'representative man'. It ...
399 BC - SOCRATES lived through the rapid transitions and fiery activities of the fifth century. Born in 469, he died in 399 BCand thus his life really covers the whole period of Athenian greatness. He forms a link between the old Athens and the r.ew. At his birth, it ...
399 BC - THE FATE of Socrates is one of the principal themes in the history of the western mind. Whatever might be the paths of philosophical reflection from the year 399 BC.
399 BC - ip to the time of his execution, BC 399. Inoogli a disciple of Socrates, he wandered both in principle and practice very far from the \ttf\\mg and example of his great master. He »as luxurious in his mode of living; he in- iulged in sensual gratifications and the ...

May 399 BC - in the life of Socrates is the May 399 BC, and have suf-. date of his death. According fered death in May or June the to Demetrius Phalereus and same year.
 387 BC
387 BC - Returning to Athens in 387 BC, at the age of forty, Plato founded his schoolthe Academy. The Academy became the centre of Athenian intellectual life, attracting the finest minds in Greece and the Mediterranean world. Courses were given in philosophy, science .
 348 BC
348 BC - ciples that thronged to his lectures, he passed the greater part of his long life, — he died 348 BC, at the age of eighty-one years, — laboring incessantly upon the great works that bear his name. Plato imitated in his writings the method of Socrates in conversation.



Plato 


Plato was born from 428/427 BC to 348/347 BC
. beside being another classic Greek philosopher, he was also a mathematician. hes mentor was Socrates,and his student was Aristotle. Plato helped to lay the foundations of natural philosophy, science, and Western philosophy.

  Timeline :


428 BC - Plato was born around the year 428 BCE in Athens. His father died while Plato was young, and his mother remarried to Pyrilampes, in whose house Plato would grow up. Plato's birth name was Aristocles, and he gained the nickname Platon, meaning broad, because of .


427 BC - Greek Philosopher Plato - History Plato is an influential ancient Greek philosopher who was born in the year 427 BC in Athens, Greece. He was the son of wealthy Athenian parents and he began his philosophical career as a student of Socrates. After his father's


400 BC - People have engaged in recycling throughout human history; Plato advocated for and encouraged people to recycle as far back as 400 BC. At times in history when resources were at low levels, there is evidence that recycling was used to help people get by.




399 BC - Plato The Last Days of Socrates by Plato contains the four works Euthyphro, The Apology, Crito, and Phaedro which describe the trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and corrupting the youth of Athens in 399 BC. Plato was probably the most .


387 BC - Plato, or Aristocles as is his real name, was one of the most influential thinkers of history. Plato set up a school called the Academy in Athens in 387 BC. He wrote down his ideas in the form of dialogues, or discussions between people. The dialogues explain

384 BC - Born in 384 BC, Aristotle's intellectual curiosity and desire for learning was nurtured directly by Plato. The Greeks already had a long and glorious history, documented centuries earlier by Homer in the Iliad and Odyssey, works that remained a cornerstone of .


367 BC - In 367 BC Aristotle, at the age of seventeen, became a student at Plato's Academy in Athens. At the time that Aristotle joined the Academy it had been operating for twenty years. Plato was not in Athens, but rather he was on his first visit to Syracuse. We


360 BC - Plato summed up what happened to this civilization with this passage in Critics, written in 360 BCE. Ironically, this is the first mention of Atlantis in recorded history. "Let me begin by observing first of all, that nine thousand was the sum of years which had


347 BC -


529 AD - Around 388 he founded his famous school, the Academy, which had a continuous history until it was shut down by order of the Christian emperor Justinian in 529 CE. Plato's dialogs and letters constitute an enormous legacy that was studied and restudied in antiquity


Aristotle 
Aristotle was born in  384 BC  and died in 322 BC. He was a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He covered physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology.  


Timeline: 
384 BC - History Of Horticulture - Aristotle 384-322 BC Aristotle 384322 BC. Aristotle was born in Macedonia in 384 BC, theson of a physician.
In 367 BC Aristotle, at the age of seventeen, became a student at Plato's Academy in Athens. At the time that Aristotle joined the Academy it had been operating for twenty years. Plato was not in Athens,
 350 BC - Assyrian artwork has been found to suggest falconry, as a means to put food on the table, dates back almost 4000 years somewhere— between throwing a rock and weilding a spear Falconry was alluded to in Homer's "Odyssey," and specifically mentioned in Aristotle

300 BC - Greco-Roman world Among the earliest of botanical works in Europe, written around 300 BC, are two large treatises by Theophrastus: On the History of Plants (Historia Plantarum) and On the Causes of Plants
   


 



Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Today we heard two projects, one was on the Olympics, and one was one Greek food and the goddess of the harvest. We all had some grape juice and coffee cake. and we watched Bethany Eder sing us a song that she wrote. It should be our turn tomorrow, if we have school.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Project

Ahh. Project is due tomorrow. We will get all our information together, and we actually are going to put it on one of those Prezy things. 

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Begining Our Next Group Project. 2/18/10

Today we started to begin our group projects. My group decided to build a temple to the Greek God of death. In our group their is me, Hayden, Will Horn, Kibbles, and Decker. Hayden found a way for us to have a modal of our temple on the computer. I can't wait to get farther along on this project. 

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Ancient Eqypt Quiz

First picture
  • The great sphinx
  • built after pyramids
  • oldest monumental sculpture in the world 
  • built  for honor the the pharaoh of the time. 
  • is a lions body with a human's head. 
  • very old. 
pic 2
  • nile river
  • flows into the delta of the meditrainian ocean 
  • every june it floods
  • when water leaves flooded area, leaves fertil soil 
  • flows north 
  • is in a lot of Egyptian myths etc. 
pic 3
  • pharaoh 
  • the pharaoh was the ruler of both the lands of Egypt 
  • was thought to be a god 
  • was thought to be able to communicate with the gods 
  • once was a woman 
  • leader of military, and political system , and religion. 
  • was worshiped 
pic 4 
  • hyrogliphics 
  • the wrightig of the egyiption poeple 
  • written by scribes 
  • tells battle storys, or history. 
  • is used for comunnication 
pic 5
  • Chariot 
  • the rider is a soilder 
  • has the wepon of a bow and arrow 
  • the image was carved by a scribe and  then painted. 
 Essay 

the farmers were considers lower classed, but they were not the lowest. the slaves were the lowest. the farmers were the people who gathered and harvested the food. the farmers came up with many technological advances to do that better. every june the nile rive flooded, the farmers would dig trenches to direct the watewr were to go, so the soil that was nice and rich was in the area they wanted it to be. the farmers were the second to lowest class. and the upper class, or the "white Kilt class" were the second to highest class, right next to pharaohs. the "white kilt class" was called that because they always wore bleached white cloths. this class was filled up with priest, advisers to the pharaohs, doctors or physicians, and engineers. they had money and had some power. were the farmers did not. the upper class did not have to work for labor, were the majority of the pyramids and building made for the pharaohs were built by farmers. they had many differences between the two classes, and there are many different classes in between them. 

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Test Notes

Ancient Egypt
-Geography
 Egyptian life centered around the Nile river.
 Used water for drinking, irrigation, bathing.  
 Every July it floods
Every October it leaves behind rich soil.
The delta is a broad, marshy triangular area of fertile silt.
Managing the river required technological breakthroughs in irrigation. 
-Pyramids
The great Sphinx of Giza
Built 2555-2532 BC 
Is a recumbent lion with a human's head
Oldest monumental statue in the world.
Tribute to the Pharaohs. 
There to protect them. 
-Daily Life 
Order of status 
  • Slaves- helped wealthy with household and child raising duties.  
  • Farmers- raised wheat, barley, lentils, onions - benefited from irrigation of the Nile. 
  • Artisans - would carve statues and relics, showing military battles, and seen from the afterlife. 
  • Merchants - barter system was used. they might accept bags of grain for payment. later, coinage came about. 
  • Scribes - kept records, told stories, wrote poetry, described anatomy, and medical treatments. 
  • They wrote in hieroglyphs, and hieratic.     
  • Soldiers - used wooden weapons ( bows and arrows, spears) might ride chariots.  
  • Upper class- "white Kilt class" priests, physicians, engineers. 
  • Pharaohs 
Were the religious and political leader of the Egyptian people. " lord of two lands" upper and lower Egypt. 
Owned land, made laws, collected taxes, and defended Egypt against foreigners. 
Women Served once.
Cleopatra VII served as Pharaoh, But much later. 
( 51 - 30 BC ) 
More on her when we study Greece. 

Learned From http://prezi.com/ 

    Tuesday, February 2, 2010

    My Pyramid

    Today we had to build our own pyramids at Pyramid Builder. It was a challenge. the first person to finish their pyramid got 10/10, if you finished your pyramid during class you got a 9/10, and if you didn't even finish you got only a 5/10. at first i couldn't pick the right material, i kept picking granite, because i thought it would look prettier. but the pharaoh said it was to heavy, and would take to long to build. so then i choose limestone, which was the correct material. the second problem was that i could not give my worker the right working conditions. It said it would take me 145 years to build a 20 year pyramid. Then i didn't pick the right god to protect my pyramids, and they kept getting destroyed by earthquakes, and locust. Finally, after about 30 tries, I built my pyramid, and it was big, and beautiful.