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 625-600 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

• 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

Hesiod: Works and Days

• Ascra, Boeotia

• Didactic poetry

• Near Eastern wisdom literature