HISTORY 1M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Agoge, Apella, Archaic Greece
27 Oct 2017
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The issue of the archaic age: justice: the distribution of powers and protections among the population. The formation of the polis: from informal assemblies and traditional authority to laws, offices, and formal institutions of government. Power to initiate and veto (deny the laws the apella(cid:495)s make(cid:524) laws (drawn mostly from ages 60+) Not really kings but hereditary generals of armies/magistrates. They had the title, but were not kings. They did not rule effectively (not elected- by birth right) Didn(cid:495)t make laws, they were subject of the law. Distribution of powers between citizen assembly and elite magistrates. 12-20: training, then first period of military service. Conformity and duty as citizens towards the state. Groups of 15 men (belonged to a single mess) They would go back home to fulfill their wives needs and be a family, but then go right back to their lovers and syssitia. Older boys would take younger boys to be their prodigies and lovers.
