Information Sheet Final 1 1
Information Sheet Final 1 1
Information Sheet Final 1 1
Each team will be given a set of balloons. Each set contains 9 balloons. The
balloons contain questions related to the topic and these are also color-
coded. Every color has a point value, red balloons are equivalent to a point,
blue balloons are equal to 2 points and the green balloons are equal to 3
points. The balloons will be popped up using the darts. Once a question is
answered correctly, immediately pop another balloon to gain more points.
The team that gets the highest point before the time runs out wins!
Knowledge of the life of Pericles derives largely from two sources. The
historian Thucydides admired him profoundly and refused to criticize him.
His account suffers from the fact that, 40 years younger, he had no firsthand
knowledge of Pericles’ early career; it suffers also from his approach, which
concentrates exclusively on Pericles’ intellectual capacity and his war
leadership, omitting biographical details, which Thucydides thought
irrelevant to his theme. The gaps are partly filled by the Greek
writer Plutarch, who, 500 years later, began writing the life of Pericles to
illustrate a man of unchallengeable virtue and greatness at grips with the
fickleness of the mob and finished rather puzzled by the picture he found in
his sources of Pericles’ responsibility for a needless war. These sources are
not all ascertainable, but they certainly preserve an invaluable amount of fact
and contemporary gossip, which is sometimes nearly as useful.
Pericles was born into the first generation able to use the new weapon of the
popular vote against the old power of family politics. His father, Xanthippus,
a typical member of this generation, almost certainly of an old family, began
his political career by a dynastic marriage into the controversial family of
the Alcmaeonids. He soon left their political camp, probably on the question
of relations with Persia, and took the then new path of legal prosecution as a
political weapon.
The only name associated with his early education is that of the musical
theorist Damon, whose influence, it is said, was not just confined to music.
The arrival of the Sophist philosophers in Athens occurred during his middle
life, and he seems to have taken full advantage of the society of Zeno and
particularly Anaxagoras, from whom he is said to have learned impassivity
in the face of trouble and insult and skepticism about alleged divine
phenomena.
The first known date in his life is 472 BCE, when he paid for the production
of the playwright Aeschylus’ Persian trilogy. Nothing further is known until
463, when he unsuccessfully prosecuted Cimon, the leading general and
statesman of the day, on a charge of having neglected a chance to conquer
Macedonia; this implies that Pericles advocated an aggressive policy of
expansion for Athens.
Only rumour associates him directly with the political convulsion of the next
two years, which drove Cimon into exile, swung Athens away from its
alignment with Sparta, and decisively strengthened the democratic elements
in the Athenian constitution; but he probably did support the democratic
leader Ephialtes in this period, and his introduction of pay for juries,
unfortunately undatable, is a logical consequence of Ephialtes’ reforms.
That Pericles immediately succeeded the assassinated Ephialtes as head of
the democratic party in 461 is an ancient oversimplification; there were other
men of considerable weight in Athens in the next 15 years. The outbreak of
war among the Greek states in 459 put a premium on military talent, and
Pericles’ only recorded campaign in the next few years was a naval expedition
in the Corinthian Gulf in 454, in which Athens defeated Achaea but failed to
win more important objectives. Politically he is credited with some kind of
rapprochement with Cimon, who is said to have been recalled and allowed to
resume the war with Persia, much preferred to fighting other Greeks, but the
date of Cimon’s recall is uncertain, and the rumours are hard to disentangle.
ODYSSEY
● Ang bayaning si Odysseus at ang sampung taon niyang stuggle upang
makauwi ng Ithaca pagkatapos ng Trojan War.
● Sa pagkawala ni Odysseus, ang asawa niyang si Penelope ay
nagkaroon ng madaming manliligaw. Itong mga manliligaw na ito ay
kinain ang mga pagkain ni Odysseus, at unti-unting sinisira ang
kaniyang estado. Si Penelope naman ay tinanggihan ang mga
manliligaw na ito sa pagitan ng pagsasabing hindi siya magaasawa
muli hangga’t hindi niya nahahabi ang isang tela na kaniyang inuun-
weave muli kada gabi.
MGA PANGYAYARI:
STATION 3 - DIZZLE
By: Ken
Also called: Dizzy Puzzle
5 groups are playing
Banner: Red
Mechanics - Sa station na ito ang bawat grupo ay binigyan ngmga puzzle
puzzle pieces. Kailangan ng bawat grupo buuin ang puzzle na ibinigay sa
kanila. Magtutulungan ang mga miyembro ng bawat grupo sa pagbuo ng
puzzle. Ang bubuuin nila ay litrato ng isa sa mga importanteng tao sa
ginintuang panahon ng Athens.
Thucydides
- isang historian
- isinulat niya ang History of Peloponnesian War o ang digmaan sa
pagitan ng Athenians at Peloponnesians
Chares
- isang sculptor
- pinait ang Colossus of Rhodes, istatwa ni Helios, greek God of sun
- ang Colossus of Rhodes ay itinanghal na Seven Wonders of the
Ancient World
Homer
- sumulat ng Iliad at Odyssey
- ang Iliad ay pumapaksa sa heroism
- ang Odyssey ay pumapaksa sa paglalakbay
Ictinus at Calicrates
- sila ang nagtayo ng Parthenon, isang marmol na templo sa
Acropolis
- itinayo nila ang Parthenon para kay Athena, ang Diyosa ng
karunungan at patron ng Athens
Socrates
- isa sa mga Athenian na tumuligsa sa mga pilosopiya ng mga
Sophist
- know thyself
- socratic method—dapat na patuloy na magtanong ang mga tao sa
hinggil sa mga bagay-bagay upang matiyak kung sila ay may mga
kasagutan sa mga katanungang ito
- siya ay nahatulan ng kamatayan dahil hindi nagustuhan ng mga
Athenian ang ginawang pagtatanong ni Socrates lalo na ang mga
tungkol sa mga diyos-diyosan at ilang patakaran ng Athens
- ngunit bago pa siya maparusahan, nagpakamatay siya sa
pamamagitan ng paglason sa sarili
Plato
- pinakasikat na mag-aaral ni Socrates
- nagsumikap na maitala ang lahat ng dayalogo sa pagitan ng
dalawa o mas higit pang tauhan
- ang pinakatanyag ay ang Republic, isang talakayan tungkol sa
katangi-tanging polis at ang uri ng pamahalaan na
makapagbibigay ng kaligayahan sa mga mamamayan nito
Aristotle
- pinakamahusay na mag-aaral ni Plato
- nagpakadalubhasa sa pag-aaral ng halaman, hayop, astronomiya,
at pisika
- “ang alinmang teorya ay maaari lamang tanggapin kung ito ay
batay sa masusing pagmamasid ng mga katotohanan”
- ama ng biyolohiya (biology)
- ilan sa mga tanyag niyang aklat ay ang Poetic, isang pagsusuri sa
mga iba’t ibang dula-dulaan, ang Rhetoric, na nagsasabi kung
paano dapat ayusin ng isang nagtatalumpati ang kanyang
talumpati, at ang Politics, kung saan tinalakay ng mga mamamayan
ang iba’t ibang uri ng pamahalaan
Pythagoras
- nagpasikat ng doktrina ng mga numero kung saan sinasabi niya na
ang blang na tatlo, lima, at pito ay maseswerteng numero
Thales
- dinakila dahil sa kanilang ambag sa laranghan ng agham at
pilosopiya
- ayon sa kaniya, ang sandaigdigan ay nagmula sa tubig, ang
pangunahing elemento ng kalikasan
Phidias
- siya ang nag-ukit ng 40 talampakang estatwa ni Athena sa
Parthenon at estatwa ni Zeus sa Olympia
Hippocrates
- ay isang sinaunang manggagamot, at kadalasang kinikilala bilang
isa sa pinakatanyag na institusyon o karakter sa medisina
- kinilala bilang Ama ng Medisina
Herodotus
- ay isang mananalaysay na Griyego na namuhay noong ika-5
dantaong BC at itinuring ni Cicero bilang "Ama ng Kasaysayan."
Siya rin ang itinuturing bilang "Unang Mananalaysay ng Mundo.
Pericles
- ay isang tanyag at maimpluhong politiko. Isa rin siyang orador, at
heneral ng Atenas. Namuhay siya sa pagitan ng mga digmaang
Persa at Peloponesyano.
- nagtatag ng asembliya
Discussion:
Noong ginintuang panahon ng Athens, tanging ang mga lalaki lamang ang
mamamayan. Ngunit mayroon pa itong kaakibat na kondisyon, ikaw dapat
ay isang malayang lalaki. Sa edad na 7 taon, kailangan na nilang mag-aral,
sila ay tinuturuan magbasa at magsulat, pati na rin ang mga asignaturang
sipnayan at musika. Inaaral din nila ang asignaturang physical education
upang sila ay matuto ng mga pampalakasang aktibidad at para ihanda din
sila sa serbisyong militar. Sa edad na 18 taon, ang mga lalaki ay nagsasanay
sa militar sa loob ng 2 taon at pagkatapos maaari na silang maging
mamamayan ng Athens at makibahagi sa pamahalaan.