Kate Wadhams

TEACHERS: Mr. Nicky is still scheduling his spring 2023 online assemblies & virtual classroom songwriting workshops! These online programs (via Zoom/Google Meet/etc.) meet state learning standards in both social studies and ELA, and they’re tons of fun. Please send an e-mail to [email protected] for full information. (Students will not receive a response, but thank you for your support!)

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Ancient Greece Song By Mr. Nicky

To the tune of “All About That Bass” by Meghan Trainor

Backing track property of Karaoke Version/Tency Music.

Because I taught Alexander the Great, Im the great Aristotle

Alexander the Great, Im the great Aristotle

Alexander the Great, Im the great Aristotle

Alexander the Great, Im so great (great, great, great, great, great)

If youre a polytheist, you should be thanking Zeus

For all the Greek achievements that theyve passed down to you

Cause you got Democracy from the folks in Athens &

Our alphabet is from the Phoenicians

Minoans and Mycenaeans

worked at their sailing trade

Around an acropolis theyd build a city-state

Wasnt much farming soil, barely enough

On the peninsulas of Attica and Peloponnesus

So in Athens theyd given their citizens voting rights (rule by the people)

But in Sparta they were doing their duty and trained to fight (their duty, duty, for their oligarchy)

Though the Spartans had helots, they were jealous of Athens power (Athens jury and assembly)

With their allies they all fought the Peloponnesian War

It was a battle between city-states, city-states

A battle between two city-states, city-states

A battle that ends the Golden Age, Golden Age

A battle where Pericles was slain by a plague (ugh!)

Then Macedonians

Invaded from the north in a phalanx

Phillip II fought on horses backs

The Greeks got warnings from Demosthenes the Orator but Phillips cavalries won

His son Alexander spread Greek culture through his empire (mixing the traditions)

With a library in Alexandria on the Nile (they built a Pharos, its a giant lighthouse)

Hellenism spread eastward till he died in Babylon (His generals split his Empire)

He should have prayed to Athena inside of the Parthenon

Its like a tragedy by Sophocles, Sophocles, Greek Drama

Or by Euripides, Euripides, Greek Drama

Or Aristophanes, Aristophanes, Greek Drama

Its like a tragedy, tragedy

Its like the Iliad and Odyssey, Odyssey by Homer

Its like the Iliad and Odyssey, by Homer

Its like the Iliad and Odyssey by Homer

Its like the Iliad and Odyssey

Thats right I taught Alexander the Great, Im the great Aristotle

Alexander the Great, Im the Great Aristotle

Alexander the Great, Im the Great Aristotle

Alexander the Great, Im so great

I learned from philosophy from Socrates, Socrates, Im Plato

I learned from philosophy from Socrates, Socrates, Im Plato

I learned from philosophy from Socrates, Socrates, Im Plato

Play-doh? hahaha