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The Humanistic Tradition, 4/e
Gloria K. Fiero
Greece: Humanism and the Speculative Leap

Chapter Outline

  1. Bronze Age (Aegean) Civilizations
    1. Minoan
    2. Mycenaean
  2. The Heroic Age
    1. Homer and the Iliad
    2. the Greek gods
  3. The Rise of the polis
    1. the Greek polis
    2. the Persian Wars
  4. Athens and the Golden Age
    1. the evolution of Greek democracy
    2. Pericles' view of Athenian society
    3. the Olympic games
    4. Greek drama
      1. origins and development
      2. Sophocles' Antigone
      3. Aristotle on tragedy
  5. Greek Philosophy
    1. Naturalist philosophy: the pre-Socratics
      1. Thales
      2. Leucippus and Democritus
      3. Heraclitus
      4. Pythagoras
      5. Hippocrates
    2. Humanist philosophy
      1. the Sophists
      2. Socrates
      3. Plato
        1. the Theory of Forms
        2. the just state (The Republic)
      4. Aristotle
        1. the empirical method
        2. the science of logic
        3. ethics: the nature of happiness; the Golden Mean








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