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Herodotus

Clst 181SK Ancient Greece and the Origins of Western Culture

Historiê

• The Persian Wars

Logistics

Clst 181SK Ancient Greece and the Origins of Western Culture

Special Class: NOT this Friday, but Friday Oct. 10

• NO CLASS on Monday,

BUT THERE IS A (SHORT) ASSIGNMENT

• http://people.duke.edu/~wj25/Greek_Originals/Schedule.html

The Persian Wars 490 BCE - Battle of Marathon (Great King = Darius)

The Persian Wars 480 BCE - Invasion of Greece (Great King = Xerxes)

• Thermopylae

Burning of Athens Salamis Plataea

480 The Persian War

480 The Persian (Achaemenid) Empire

Arion and the Dolphin

Wenjia, Qin

• Herodotus

Croesus and Solon

Arabella, Jerry

Atys and Adrastus

Shuo, Yi

Croesus on the Pyre

Lingfei, Ted

Cleobis and Biton

Yuyi, Zhifan

Military narrative: Croesus attacks Cyrus Cyrus counterattacks Siege of Sardis Herodotus

Croesus on the Pyre Herodotus Fourteen: Twice seven Pending business:

Coda: Marvels and Customs of Lydia Herodotus

Terms historiê cycle of hybris - atê - nemesis “know thyself” mutability of fortune “de-emphasis of actual events into symptoms of a ... metaphysical tendency” - H. Woods

• Stories

(know the stories and be able to recall and spell names of the principal characters, 
 starting from these titles)

• 1. Snatchings of Women (Io, Europa, Medea, Helen)
• 2. Gyges and the wife of Candaules
• 3. Arion and the Dolphin
• 4. Croesus and Solon
• 5. Cleobis and Biton
• 6. Atys and Adrastus
• 7. Croesus and the testing of the oracles
• 8. Croesus and the pyre

Herodotus

Terms slavery versus freedom (in Herodotus book 1)

• Stories

(know the stories and be able to recall and spell names of the principal characters, 
 starting from these titles)

• 1. Deioces and the Rise of the Medes
• 2. Birth and Upbringing of Cyrus
• 3. Astyages and the Punishment of Harpagus
• 4. How Cyrus became king
• 5. Cyrus’ last campaign: the Massagetae
• Herodotus

Names Persia / Persians Media / Medes Caspian Sea Scythia /Scythians Massagetae

• Deioces

Astyages Harpagus Cyrus (the Great) Tomyris

• Herodotus

Herodotus

• 1. key motifs/themes
• 2. repeated motifs/themes

“de-emphasis of actual events into symptoms of a ... metaphysical tendency” - H. Woods

Deioces and the Rise of the Medes

Wenjia, Lingfei

• Herodotus

Birth and Upbringing of Cyrus

Shuo, Ted

How Cyrus became King

Jerry, Yi

Cyrus’ Last Campaign: the Massagetae

Zhifan, Qin

Astyages: the Punishment of Harpagus

Arabella, Yuyi

• 1. key motifs/themes
• 2. repeated motifs/themes

• In the fifth generation….

Herodotus

• In the fifth generation….

Herodotus

1. Io: East attacks West 2. Europa: West attacks East 3. Medea: West attacks East 4. Helen: East attacks West 5. A mighty war, West wins

• In the fifth generation….

Herodotus

1. Io: East attacks West 2. Europa: West attacks East 3. Medea: West attacks East 4. Helen: East attacks West 5. A mighty war, West wins 1. Gyges 2. Ardys 3. Sadyattes 4. Alyattes 5. Croesus: a mighty war

• In the fifth generation….

Herodotus

1. Io: East attacks West 2. Europa: West attacks East 3. Medea: West attacks East 4. Helen: East attacks West 5. A mighty war, West wins 1. Gyges 2. Ardys 3. Sadyattes 4. Alyattes 5. Croesus: a mighty war 1. Deioces 2. Phraortes 3. Cyaxares 4. Astyages 5. Cyrus: a mighty war

• In the fifth generation….

Herodotus

1. Io: East attacks West 2. Europa: West attacks East 3. Medea: West attacks East 4. Helen: East attacks West 5. Troy: a mighty war, West wins 1. Gyges 2. Ardys 3. Sadyattes 4. Alyattes 5. Croesus: a mighty war 1. Deioces 2. Phraortes 3. Cyaxares 4. Astyages 5. Cyrus: a mighty war

1. Croesus (“the first injustice’) 2. Cyrus 3. Cambyses 4. Darius 5. Xerxes: a mighty war