Unit Overview:
This unit is dedicated to bringing students in touch with the deep and far-reaching influence of ancient Greece on modern Western philosophy and culture. Gods, Heroes, and Other Celebrated Greeks examines general ways the "ethos" of a culture is shaped and immerses students in building a frame of reference that equips them to recognize common denominators that exist between Ancient Greek and modern Western philosophy and culture. Uncovering the Legacy of Ancient Greece focuses on the processes of recovering artifacts of the past and engages students in a "virtual" dig, assuming the roles of archeologists, cultural anthropologists, and historians to "read" artifacts in an effort to reconstruct the past. Deep Roots of Ancient Greece explores an historical view of ways Ancient Greek influence has been infused and sustained in modern Western culture and deepens and expands students’ background in Ancient Greek sources as further preparation for documenting and analyzing specific evidence of that influence.
Lesson Overviews:
This lesson is designed to help students shape a frame of reference for examining specific areas of ancient Greek influence on Western thought and culture.
This lesson is designed to bring students in general touch with major sources from which the knowledge of ancient Greece has been retrieved. Students will recognize that what we know of ancient Greece has come to us mainly through generations of scholarly research and analysis of artifacts recovered in archeological digs.
Students will examine areas of ancient Greek influence on Western thought and culture and research diverse topics to assess the ways Western ideals resonate ancient Greek ideals.
