Hellenic Times - "Freedom and Disorder"

The Hellenic Period ranged from 507 BCE (Athens' first democracy) through 323 BCE (the death of Alexander the Great). It is considered the Golden Age of Greece. It also saw the beginnings of modern theater. First, the historical context, with John Green :)

Hellenic Beauty in Sculpture

What is beauty? Is it based on geometry as the ancient Greeks supposed? Here is a modern method to check whether your face is beautiful, based on geometrical principles.  Click on it ... do you agree? Here is a 10 minute BBC item on Greek sculpture and its relation to geometrical principles.

Architectural beauty

For lessons from Socrates (470-399 BCE), all of which relate to today as much as yesterday, click on 17 Life Changing Lessons below.

Philosophy

Hellenic Oration

Pericles Funeral Oration, (Hellenic times - 404 BCE) as recounted by the historian Thucydides, is a powerful statement about democracy. A brief summary of the context can be read here and the full text can be viewed in the YouTube.

Hellenic Theater​
A text-based summary of Greek theater can be accessed at this link. It includes dates and names. The two videos below give a very good account of the origins and design of Greek theater.

Sophocles (c. 496-406 B.C.) who gave us plays about war and of course, "Electra".
Click below for the full text of the play.
Click the following article  to see how Sophocles is being used today to help US veteran soldiers deal with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ...

Aristophanes (446 BCE- 386 BCE)
​Surviving is his ribald romp, "Lysistrata" about women of Athens inflicting their greatest punishment on their menfolk.
Click below for the version translated by Ian Johnston of Vancouver Island University.