Serpent column Plataea 479

A Brief History of Ancient Greece

Fall 2019, Week 5

“insufferable in victory”

oligarchies

Anabasis

The Corinthian War (395-387 BC)

koinē eirenē

Thebes (382 BC), Athens (377 BC)

Thebes

Sacred Band

Epaminondas

Leuctra (371 BC)

Messenia

Mantinea (362 BC)

Democracy in Athens

rhētor

government by amateurs

dicasteries (klērotērion)

klepsydra

crime and punishment

Plato (429-347 BC)

Socratic dialogues (What is justice?)

Protagoras (politikē technē)

The Republic

philosophers and rulers

The Academy (Academus)

Aristotle (384-322 BC)

“Man is a political animal”

A’s god, the “the prime mover”

Logic (the syllogism)

The Athenian Constitution

The Lyceum

Macedonia

“Greekness”

instability

autocracy

Hellenization

recognition

Philip II

Perdiccas III (359 BC)

diplomacy

reforms

phalanx

loyalty

Force in Greece

Crocus Field (352 BC)

Thessaly

Amphyctionic Council

Peace of Philocrates (346 BC)

Athens, Sparta

Chaeronea (338 BC)

Corinth, Megara, Messenia

Alexander

Thebes

Athens

Sparta

“the Greeks”

Corinthian League (337 BC)

hēgemōn

crusade against Persia

Olympias and Alexander, Cleopatra and Europa

336 BC