Classical Studies 2301A/B Lecture Notes - Calchas, Peloponnesian War, Thyestes

Crime and punishment in ancient greece and rome. We are much less greeks than we believe. We are much less greek than we think. Common argument classical cultures are the foundation of modern western culture. It is worth studying ancient greece because in some sense, we are still greek. But, foucault said we are not like greek. Democracy today is not the same thing as democracy in classical athens. Political right to a small group of young adult men. Ancient democracy significantly different than today (women and men allowed to vote) Ancient crime and punishment are concepts involving spectacle, while modern crime and punishment are rather involved with surveillance. To render accessible to a multitude of men the inspection of a small number of objects": this was the problem to which the architecture of temples, theatres and circuses responded. With spectacle, there was a predominance of public life, the intensity of festivals, sensual proximity.