Ba study material

1.Ancient Greece Three periods: 1. Archaic:  Before the Archaic period, it was the Greek Dark Ages, characterized by ignorance, injustices, and various kinds of misery 2. Classical 3. Hellenistic Archaic Period  About 9th cent BC to 5th cent BC  City-states formed  Constantly at war with one another  Ruled by tyrants  Persians were their common enemy  Poets: Homer, Hesiod and Sappho Classical Period  5th-4th century  Athens  Athens emerged as the most powerful of the Greek city-states  Ruled by the famous ruler, Pericles  Tremendous flowering of the arts and letters  Disciplines such as political thought, aesthetics, physics, ethics, linguistics, biology, logic and mathematics developed 2.Rise of Philosophy  Pre-Socratic philosophers (6th century BC)  Thales of Miletus, Anaximander, Xenophanes of Colophon, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Zeno of Elea, Sophists  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle Hellenistic Period  The period is from the time of Alexander the Great  ...