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1Hercules Twelve Labors - the story

You have four choices for completing this project. 1. Create an artistic representation of one of the twelve labors using your choice of medium. 2. Create a map of Hercules travels and annotate the map to tell what happened in each place.(minimum of four places) 3.Create an authentic looking diary for Hercules with a minimum of three entries.Check to make sure the chronology is correct. 4.Using the inverted pyramid model write a newspaper story reporting on three of Hercules labors. Remember to PROOFREAD before turning in any written work. Use the scoring guide to evaluate your piece and decide what grade you would give yourself. Then make needed corrections.

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2Hercules Art

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3Hercules Art

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4Greek Civilization Art

Scroll down on this page to look at the different shapes suggestions as you create your own piece of Greek pottery.

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5Greek Civilization Art

Examine the details of the images on the pot. Look at the colors that the Greeks used in these decorations.

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6Greek Civilization Art

Greek Art for saie!

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7Greek Civilization Art

Examples of Greek relief sculpture

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8Maps of Ancient Greece

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9Maps of Ancient Greece

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10Maps of Ancient Greece

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11Maps of Ancient Greece- scroll to Eratosthene's world map

Erasothene's World Map - 250 BC The earliest ancient Greek who is said to have constructed a map of the world is Anaximander, who was born in 610 BC in Miletus (now in Turkey), and died in 546 BC. He is said to have studied under Thales but sadly no details of his map have survived. Of course, although only a very limited portion of the Earth was known to these ancient Greeks, the shape of the Earth was always going to be of fundamental importance in world maps. Pythagoras, in the 6th century BC, is believed to be the first to put forward a belief in a spherical Earth while Parmenides certainly argued in favour of this in the following century. Around 350 BC Aristotle put forward six arguments to prove that the Earth was spherical and from that time on scholars generally accepted that indeed it was a sphere. Eratosthenes, around 250 BC, made major contributions to cartography. He measured the circumference of the Earth with great accuracy. He sketched, quite precisely, the route of the Nile to Khartoum, showing the two Ethiopian tributaries. He made another important contribution in using a grid to locate positions of places on the Earth. He was not the first to use such a grid for Dicaearchus, a follower of Aristotle, had devised one about 50 years earlier. Today we use latitude and longitude to determine such coordinates and Eratosthenes' grid was of a similar nature. Note, of course, that the use of such positional grids are an early form of Cartesian geometry. Following Dicaearchus, Eratosthenes chose a line through Rhodes and the Pillars of Hercules (present day Gibraltar) to form one of the principal lines of his grid. This line is, to a quite high degree of accuracy, 36° north and Eratosthenes chose it since it divided the world as he knew it into two fairly equal parts and defined the longest east-west extent known. He chose a defining line for the north-south lines of his grid through Rhodes and drew seven parallel lines to each of his defining lines to form a rectangular grid.

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12Manuscripts from Ancient Greece

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13Manuscripts- Gospel of Judas

The Gospel of Judas- Gnostic text

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14Manuscripts- paper?

Find out what kind of material ancient Greeks would have used for their diaries.

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15Manuscripts- Translate to Greek- just for fun

Remember that Mrs. Gilman is not fluent in Greek so you also need to submit the writing in English.

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16Journalism Inverted Pyramid

this is one example of an inverted pyramid that is often used for preparing articles for newspapers, magazine and websites.

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17Ancient Greeks and British Museum