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| esteem, glory. Could be gotten in battle or competition. |
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| worthlessness of a person |
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| Periods of Ancient Greece |
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| Bronze Age, Dark Age, Lyric Age, Classical Age, Hellenistic Age |
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Anatolian period- Minoans in Anatolia worshipped snake goddess (fertility and rejuvination)
-Indo-Europeans came, Myceans worshipped Zeus.
-Minoans and Mycaneans combined |
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| foreign invasions. Family became political and social center. Homer's poems written. |
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Poetry written and Polis created.
Archilocus and Sappos (lesbos) were famous poets. |
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| city-state. Asty-city and chora- outside the city made up polis. Acropolis, Agora, Gymansion |
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| raised point of land where city began. Political center |
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| men competed with eachother naked to get Arete |
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Athletic competion in olympia, adelphi, domia.
pindar- reward for winning, Godlike humans got odes
-persian wars
-pelopennisian war
-rise of cultural life (theatre, architecture, education/philosophy)
-rise of rhetoric (demosthenes and Isocrates)
-4th century Alexander king of Macedon conquered eqypt persia and palestine |
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-Greek influence
-Macedonian kings divided up lands
-world was Hellenistic |
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| -30 yrs of Athens v. Sparta, Athens lost. |
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| Geographical influence of development of Greece |
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-mountains caused slow invasions: Indo-European/Minoan in 2000 BC and Dorian during Dark Age
-when newcomers came, people moved out to the east islands (Aeolians and Ionians were pre-greeks)
-mountains let Greece isolate and develop high civilizations
-Islands were nearby, people could commute
-ethnic, religious, political differences
-mountains divided up land into regions and subregions (attica, messenia, corinth)
-sea: escape for some, influence of other cultures (Greeks adopted their alphabet from Phoenecians)
-during lyric age, sea solved overpopulation problemd bc ppl could move |
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moderate. grain- boreal
-agriculture: wine, olive oil
-imported food
-best pottery out of river clay |
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-Athens=large with 250,000 people
-Sparta= great territory, 5000 people
-Acropolis on raised land with citadel on it, surrounded by agora, then walls, then countryside, then mountains with olive trees and vineyards |
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| Influence of geography on social culture |
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1. Pelopennesian war- corinth allied with sparta b/c athens and corinth were trading competitors. This blocked any access of Athens to Italy. Corinth was better situated for trade, but Athens was more successful b/c they had better pottery.
-Sparta was an agricultural state w/ bad trading access. Laconia + Messenia made the Poloponnesian League. Warfare would open new markets for them.
-Athens had the Athenian Empirs/Dorian league which was destroyed by the war |
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| How did Athenians contribute to Greek tragedy? |
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-6th c. festivals of Dionysus held with choirs of men in tragos (goat coats) that sang odes to dionysus= tragedy
-5th c. BC was golden age of theatre
-thespis introduced 1st actor
-aeschylis added 2nd
-sophocles added 3rd
-Ekstasis (ecstasy induced by wine) and the odes made up festival and tragedy |
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| Greek theatre characteristics |
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-famous poets were Aesychles, Sophocles, and Euripides
-festivals occurred in january and march
-chorus sang hymns accompanied by flute
-actors (no more than 3) played many roles, wore robes, platform shoes, and masks
-only male actors b/c women weren't allowed at the theatre, and men were louder
-very large audiences (up to 20,000 ppl) |
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-orchestra with altar of dionysus in the middle
-behind stage a skene (wooden booth for changing masks/background)
-one side of orchestra had a stage |
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| the festival of dionysus competition |
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-state organized, and paid people to go
-tragedies of 3 poets on 3 days
-winner got time and ivy crown
-plays were based on a known story
-actors spoke in iambic trimeter, chorus had a different rhythm
-they occurred in city dionysia and lenaia
-performed in ampitheatres |
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-blind poet from Ionia, post-trojan war
-illiad and odyseey written by 2 different people, transmitted orally
-aoidos= singers
-phorminx= guitar-like instrument
-blind had exceptional memory and skill with music |
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| example of a shame culture |
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-ares and aphrodite story
-the homeric moral code (shame v. Time)
-the differences b/t gods and mortals |
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| -prevailing moral system for the Greeks |
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| -stolen children from other lands who became slaves but gained ties to the family |
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| -2/3 of their time was spent making clothing |
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| -family, most important aspect in dark age |
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"the good people"
-the elite people with big circles
-determined by wealth (land, animals, treasures), descendant from Gods (Achilles descended from Zeus)
-glory from war |
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| -blind singer in the Odyssey |
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-no judges, court, govt
-family most important
-eye for an eye type of justice
-presonal vendettas
-polis didn't exist
-slaves didn't live badly, but thetes were worse off- usually beggars who lived in poverty |
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| aristocratic society in dark age |
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-wealth, ancestry, military power (therapontes were sons of other families who were suported by the aristocratic families and heled fight in campaigns)
-male heads of these families were cheifs (basileus/basileutos) |
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| -cheif of aristocrat family in dark age, would become magistrate of polis |
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-showed origins of polis
-were principles of education and morality
-male-oriented society
-influenced idea of religion
- morals of achilles became morals of all |
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basileus- chief/magistrate
boule- council of chiefs
demos/ekklesia- assembly of all the people in one place |
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