Transcript Archaic Greece 776-490 BC

Archaic Greece 776-490 BC
• Alphabet
• Shift from geometric to oriental in
pottery
• City-state - polis
• Colonization
• Hoplite warfare
• Tyranny and class struggle
Linear B Mycenaean
Greek alphabetic: law code
of Gortyn; boustrophedon
Dipylon Vase 740 BC
Corinthian style: oriental
c. 650 BC
Oenochoe 625600 BC
Polis: Attica
Astu (city) and
chora
(countryside)
Synoecism
Basileus and
archon
Assembly
Rise of
aristocracy
Greek Colonization: metropolis; oikistes;
Hoplite, from
675 BC; armor;
phalanx
Marble and Messages at
Ephesus
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Class struggle
• Aristocracy: hoi agathoi; kalokagathia
– isonomia
• Hoi kakoi
• Thetes; mortgages
• Tyranny and resistance to aristocrats
Thucydides
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History of Peloponnesian War (431-404)
Greatest war
Reconstructive anthropology
Trojan war; Persian invasion; tyranny
Hesiod: Works and Days
• Ascra, Boeotia
• Didactic poetry
• Near Eastern wisdom literature