10/10/19 H I S T O R Y O F ancient Greece Athens and the Art of Society MEETING 6 � (Sparta continued) � Athenian History � Persian Empire � The Persian Invasions 1 Reading Aristotle / On the Spartan Constitution 2 Magistracies � Kings – Agiad and Eurypontid � Gerousia � Ephors � Assembly 3 1
10/10/19 The Great Rhetra Διὸς Συλλανίου καὶ Ἀθανᾶς Συλλανίας ἱερὸν ἱδρυσάμενον , φυλὰς φυλάξαντα καὶ ὠβὰς ὠβάξαντα , τριάκοντα γερουσίαν σὺν ἀρχαγέταις καταστήσαντα , ὥρας ἐξ ὥρας ἀπελλάζειν μεταξὺ Βαβύκας τε καὶ Κνακιῶνος , οὕτως εἰσφέρειν τε καὶ ἀφίστασθαι δάμῳ δὲ τὰν κυρίαν ἦμεν καὶ ράτος . αἰ δὲ σκολιὰν ὁ δᾶμος ἕλοιτο , τοὺς πρεσβυγενέας καὶ ἀρχαγέτας ἀποστατῆρας ἦμεν . Having founded a temple of Zeus Syllanios and Athene Syllania, having tribed [or preserved] the tribes and obed the obes, having established thirty as a council of elders together with {the leaders/kings}, from time to time {to celebrate Apollo/hold assemblies} between Babyca and Cnacion, thus to bring in and to set aside. Ultimate authority and power is to be the people’s. If the people speaks crookedly, the elders and {leaders/kings} be setters aside. 4 Spartan gods 5 The “Spartan Mirage” 6 2
10/10/19 7 ARCHAIC ATHENS 8 Athens and Sparta � How are they similar? � How (and why) are they different? – Geographically – Ethnically – Culturally 9 3
10/10/19 10 Key early Athenian figures � Theseus (8th century) � Draco ca. 620 BCE � Solon ca. 590 � Pisistratus ca. 560 � Cleisthenes ca. 508 11 Theseus: unification 12 4
10/10/19 13 Eupatrids 14 Cylon and Megacles 15 5
10/10/19 Drakōn (Draco) : Draconian laws 16 Solon: wealth, not blood 17 Reading Solon / The Rule of Law 18 6
10/10/19 Peisistratos: champion of the people 19 Reading Herodotus / The Tyranny at Corinth 20 Kleisthenes: tribes, council, and lot 21 7
10/10/19 THE PERSIANS 22 23 The Medes 24 8
10/10/19 The Persians 25 26 Zoroastrian Dualism 27 9
10/10/19 Vassals and Satraps 28 The Great King 29 Cyrus 30 10
10/10/19 Cyrus 31 Persian majesty 32 33 11
10/10/19 34 35 Cambyses 36 12
10/10/19 Darius and Xerxes 37 Reading Aeschylus / from The Persians 38 Wars with Persia Ionian rebellion 499 BCE Darius’s invasion 490 � Battle of Marathon Xerxes’s invasion 480 � Battle of Thermopylae � Battle of Salamis � Battle of Plataea 39 13
10/10/19 Battle of Marathon 40 Themistocles 41 Triremes 42 14
10/10/19 Reading Herodotus / The Battle of Thermopylae 43 Battle of Salamis 44 45 15
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