Greece sess 4 intro

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Ancient Greecesession iv - Sparta & Athens

Ancient Greecesession iv - Sparta & Athens

course outline

i - Origins

ii - Polis

iii - Colonies & Tyrants

iv - Sparta & Athens

v - Great Wars, 490-404

vi - Golden Age

vii - Second Military Revolution

viii - Hellenism

Major Points in the last Session

Major Points in the last SessionGreeks colonized to get new farmlands and to trade

when they colonized, they followed a standard pattern

the colonies lined the Black Sea coast and any parts of the Mediterranean where there was no powerful resistance

for the Greeks, a “renaissance;” for the barbarians, “culture”

the tyrants appeared as economic and social changes undermined the aristocracy

their governments were illegitimate, despotic and often violent

they promoted economic development, colonization, trade, urbanization, centralization, and public works

Questions to answer in this session

Questions to answer in this session

what was the central purpose of the Spartan state?

who was Lycurgus? what did he do?

what was the agoge?

how did the Spartan state undermine families?

describe Athenian education

what were the Athenian social divisions? explain their significance

what were the stages of Athenian democracy?

how did Peisistratos’ tyranny promote democracy?

review of the previous sessions

Delphitreasure house

Discus of Phaistos

HeinrichSchliemann

SophiaSchliemann

wearing“Priam’streasure”

Mycenae--the lion’s gate

grave goods from a Mycenean shaft gravereplicas

the “mask of Agamemnon”

Homer

“The wrath of Achilles”Leon Benouville

Odysseus

“Jupiter and Thetis”Jean Dominique Ingres

Zeus at OlympiaRoman copy of Phideias

sessions remaining

v - Great Wars, 490-404

vi - Golden Age

vii - Second Military Revolution

viii - Hellenism

Major Points in the last Session

Major Points in the last SessionGreeks colonized to get new farmlands and to trade

when they colonized, they followed a standard pattern

the colonies lined the Black Sea coast and any parts of the Mediterranean where there was no powerful resistance

for the Greeks, a “renaissance;” for the barbarians, “culture”

the tyrants appeared as economic and social changes undermined the aristocracy

their governments were illegitimate, despotic and often violent

they promoted economic development, colonization, trade, urbanization, centralization, and public works

Questions to answer in this session

Questions to answer in this session

what was the central purpose of the Spartan state?

who was Lycurgus? what did he do?

what was the agoge?

how did the Spartan state undermine families?

describe Athenian education

what were the Athenian social divisions? explain their significance

what were the stages of Athenian democracy?

how did Peisistratos’ tyranny promote democracy?

Troy

Linear B

proto-Greek ina Phoenician alphabet

Η ΔικαιοσὖνηΤό τί;

“[the] Justice.“What [is] it?”

Plato, Republic

Justice Astraea (in the stars)

[The Athenian] Acropolis, Leo von Klenze

Questions to answer in this session

Questions to answer in this session

what was the central purpose of the Spartan state?

who was Lycurgus? what did he do?

what was the agoge?

how did the Spartan state undermine families?

describe Athenian education

what were the Athenian social divisions? explain their significance

what were the stages of Athenian democracy?

how did Peisistratos’ tyranny promote democracy?

“FROGS AROUND A POND”-- SOCRATES, IN THE PHAEDO

Victor Davis Hanson(1953-)

a master and twoslaves work

together harvestingolives

a master and twoslaves work

together harvestingolives

transport amphora serving amphora

the Chigi vase, 4th c. BC

Questions to answer in this session

Questions to answer in this session

what was the central purpose of the Spartan state?

who was Lycurgus? what did he do?

what was the agoge?

how did the Spartan state undermine families?

describe Athenian education

what were the Athenian social divisions? explain their significance

what were the stages of Athenian democracy?

how did Peisistratos’ tyranny promote democracy?

ΠΙΘΕΚΥΣΑΙ

Questions to answer in this session

Questions to answer in this session

what was the central purpose of the Spartan state?

who was Lycurgus? what did he do?

what was the agoge?

how did the Spartan state undermine families?

describe Athenian education

what were the Athenian social divisions? explain their significance

what were the stages of Athenian democracy?

how did Peisistratos’ tyranny promote democracy?

preview of today’s session

Perioikoi

Perioikoi

Questions to answer in this session

Questions to answer in this session

what was the central purpose of the Spartan state?

who was Lycurgus? what did he do?

what was the agoge?

how did the Spartan state undermine families?

describe Athenian education

what were the Athenian social divisions? explain their significance

what were the stages of Athenian democracy?

how did Peisistratos’ tyranny promote democracy?

ἢ τὰν ἢ ἐπὶ τᾶς(eh tan eh epi tas)

Questions to answer in this session

Questions to answer in this session

what was the central purpose of the Spartan state?

who was Lycurgus? what did he do?

what was the agoge?

how did the Spartan state undermine families?

describe Athenian education

what were the Athenian social divisions? explain their significance

what were the stages of Athenian democracy?

how did Peisistratos’ tyranny promote democracy?

SOLŌN

mid 6th

centuryfactions

PEISISTRATOS

Harmodius and Aristogeton, the tyrannicides, kill Hipparchosin 514 BC but fail to kill his brother, the tyrant Hippias

The Alcmaeonidai

PERICLES

Questions to answer in this session

Questions to answer in this session

what was the central purpose of the Spartan state?

who was Lycurgus? what did he do?

what was the agoge?

how did the Spartan state undermine families?

describe Athenian education

what were the Athenian social divisions? explain their significance

what were the stages of Athenian democracy?

how did Peisistratos’ tyranny promote democracy?