Ancient/Archaic (900-480 BC)
victory over Persians (490 BC):
Thermopylae, Marathon, Salamis
Classical (480-323 BC)
Pericles
Alexander’s victory over Persians
Hellenistic (323 -146 BC)

Poetry
epic: Homer - Illiad (Achilles, Agamemnon), Odyssey (Odysseus)
lyric (lyre): Sappho

Pottery
geometric
black figure/red figure
Corinth, Athens (Attica)

Architecture
Parthenon: orders, triglylphs, metopes

Philosophy (love of wisdom)
rationalism
humanism - Protagoras
materialism - Miletus
idealism - Pythagoras
sophists
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
(Zeno, Epicuras)

Music
lyre, aulos
ethos

Theater
Menander
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
Aristophanes
comedy
tragedy
theatron
proscenium
orchestra
hubris
catharsis