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Archaic Greece 776-490 BC
• Alphabet
• Shift from geometric to oriental in pottery
• City-state - polis
• Colonization
• Hoplite warfare
• Tyranny and class struggle
Polis: Attica
Astu (city) and chora (countryside)
Synoecism
Basileus and archon
Assembly
Rise of aristocracy
Marble and Messages at Ephesus
• Barbara Burrell, Cincinnati
• Thursday Jan. 28, 2010
• 6 pm; Eugene Public Library
Class struggle
• Aristocracy: hoi agathoi; kalokagathia– isonomia
• Hoi kakoi
• Thetes; mortgages
• Tyranny and resistance to aristocrats
Thucydides
• History of Peloponnesian War (431-404)
• Greatest war
• Reconstructive anthropology
• Trojan war; Persian invasion; tyranny