At the beginning of today's class, we chat with Mr. Schick's daughter by Facetime (or something else, maybe i forget). It is her birthday today and she is now in France I guess. And the rest of the class, we start doing our Google slides for our presentation next week, which valued 100 points.

Today's class, we took a quiz which valued 20 points. Fortunately, I got all right. And also, we got two big tasks which valued 100 and 200 points. Arthur and I are in a group, and we got number three, art and architecture.

Greece is a mountainous peninsula, mountains cover ¾ of Greece.There are approximately 1400 islands in the Adriatic, Ionian, and Aegean Seas.Although fertile valleys cover one quarter of the peninsula, only about 20% is suitable for farming, Greek diet consists of grains, grapes, olives. Lack of resources most likely led to Greek colonization. Mycenaeance was one of the first people in ancient Greece.around 1200 BCE the mysterious “sea people” began to invade Mycenae, and burnt palace after palace. So, the Dorians moved into this war-torn region. Dorians were far less advanced. The trade-based economy collapsed. Writing disappeared for 400 years.

Socrates

 Socrates: born in 470/469 BC at Dem Alopece, Athens,    died in 399 BC at Athens. He was a classical Greek philosopher, and he was one of the founders of Western philosophy. Since Socrates didn't write any of his life, his thinking and his knowledge, all the things we know about him are all based on what his students wrote. As a champion of oral modes of communication, Socrates stood up at the dawn of writing against its haphazard diffusion. He suggested his students to get the realization by themselves, answer questions by asking questions. However, this method ran counter to the law at that time. Thus, his got arrest by the government in Athens. He had had a chance to escape the jail and got a better life. But he refused, and chose to drink a poison and got die.

Ancient Greek architecture

Corinthian Capital   
The Corinthian order is the last developed of the three principal classical orders of ancient Greeks.  The Corinthian Capital is decorated with 3 superimposed rows of carved foliage (acanthus leaves) around the capital. 

Temple of Hera, Selinus
This temple is the Doric order, it is found on the hill to the east of the city's acropolis. It is a big temple with 25.33 wide and 67.82 long. There are 6 columns on the wide side and 15 columns on the long side.

Theater of Delphi
There are 35 rows and can involve about 5000 viewers. It was built around 4th C.B.C, by limestone.






There are five different orders of classical architecture, and ancient Greek architects created three, they are Doric, Ionic, Corinthian. The other two are Tuscan and Composite. The material for construct a building gradually from wood to marble. At the first time, wood can not only for some parts of a construction but also even an entire building. But, with time on, Ancient Greeks preferred limestone and marble onside. And the carved stones will be polished by chamois to resist water and be more bright and good looking.   

Today's class, we talked about the cyber day, hope we have no class till next Tuesday!

Class on 3/3

Today's class, we started learning Ancient Greece, because it is the first mod of the day, I felt super sleepy during the class, I had try to be clear and listen, but I cannot, so I think I need to review what we learnt in today's class.