CLA 1101 Lecture 17: Athens II- Religious Life- Eleusinian Mysteries & the Panathenaia
29 Dec 2015
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Athens ii: religious life: eleusinian mysteries & the panathenaia. Reading: c/f:126 -133 plus reconstruction of the acropolis below! Tau is for tyrannicides (p. 118: last phoenician-derived letter. Kerameikos potter"s quarter (making containers out of clay, where we get the word ceramics) One of the things that made them prosperous. Black & red figure pottery was the most popular black & red figure (developed afterwards, animal and people on pottery were in red) slavery (p. 125) equality in work. 3 economic centers in athens = agora, 2 agora in the harbor area of athens aka peiraieus. Peiraieus fortified, 3 harbors (a=commercial harbor, b and c = military harbors) plan orthogonal plan (hippodamus style, new city so nicely planned). Imports food! (grain in particular from the black sea area) *no longer self sufficient. Athens out to the sanctuary of demeter in eleusis (close to attica border, and where battle of.
