the transition from Dark Ages to Archaic Greece

1. Classical Greece
session ii - Polis

2. 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

3. Major Points in the last Session
We study ancient Greece for many reasons, especially because it is
the foundation of Western Civilization
Archaeology is our primary source of knowledge about prehistoric
Greece
The bronze age culture of Mycenaean Greece was aristocratic
There are complex problems in using Homer as an historical source
The Greek Dark Ages followed the collapse of the Mycenaean Age
Recent discoveries about this period have added much information

4. Questions to answer in this session
What were the Greek beliefs about justice? How did they
relate to the polis?
What exactly is a polis?
Was Athens a typical polis?
What produced the agrarian revolution?
How did it proceed?
What were its political and military consequences?
How did hoplite soldier-farmers become the essence of the
polis?

5. review of the last
session

7. Achilles and Patroklos

8. Ancient Sparta--theater

9. Aristotle

10. Delphi
tholos

11. Delphi
treasure house

14. Palace at Knossos

15. Discus of Phaistos

16. Knossos--restored palace

19. Heinrich
Schliemann

20. sessions remaining
iii - Colonies & Tyrants
iv - Sparta & Athens
v - Great Wars, 490-404
vi - Golden Age
vii - Second Military Revolution
viii - Hellenism

21. Sophia
Schliemann
wearing
“Priam’s
treasure”

22. Mycenae--the lion’s gate

24. the
lions Mycenae--reconstruction
gate

25. Mycenae--acropolis

26. Mycenae--tholos tomb

27. interior shot of
the same view

28. grave goods from a Mycenean shaft grave
replicas

29. the “mask of Agamemnon”

30. Homer

31. “The wrath of Achilles”
Leon Benouville

32. Odysseus

33. “Jupiter and Thetis”
Jean Dominique Ingres

34. Zeus at Olympia
Roman copy of Phideias

35. Napoleon i
j.d. Ingres

36. Lincoln
Daniel Chester French

38. Troy

40. The Blegen Library
University of Cincinnati

42. Linear B

43. proto-Greek in
a Phoenician alphabet

45. the world of Homer

47. the Lelantine War

48. Heroön at Lefkandi

49. preview of today’s session

54. Η Δικαιοσὖνη
Τό τί;
“[the] Justice.
“What [is] it?”
Plato, Republic

55. Justice Astraea (in the stars)

56. [The Athenian] Acropolis, Leo von Klenze

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

67. Victor Davis Hanson
(1953-)

70. Olive oil production in Klazomenai,
an ancient city of Ionia
( now, near Urla, Izmir, Turkey)

74. transport amphora serving amphora

80. Harmodius & Aristogeton kill the tyrant Hipparchus

81. the Chigi vase, 4th c. BC

83. όπλον
Hoplon

84. ὁπλίτης
hoplite

89. παιάν
paean
παιάν

91. Questions to answer in this session
What were the Greek beliefs about justice? How did they
relate to the polis?
What exactly is a polis?
Was Athens a typical polis?
What produced the agrarian revolution?
How did it proceed?
What were its political and military consequences?
How did hoplite soldier-farmers become the essence of the
polis?