HISTORY 1M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Archaic Greece, Hoplite, Corinthian Helmet
22 Apr 2016
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Lecture # 3: the archaic period: 750-c. 480. The story of archaic greece is the story of the rise of the polis. No ruling class and central government gained the power to extract and redistribute the society"s surplus. Independent smallholders coming together in participatory self- government. The greeks embarked on an experiment of a complex society organized around and on the basis of self government by citizens: direct participatory self-government. The citizens themselves a state: citizen assemblies and magistrates; no bureaucracy, no judiciary. Mass assemblies meet to make laws and decree state actions. Citizen magistrates execute and administer public affairs, enforce the law, and sit in judgment. Held office for short, limited terms with rotation among citizens. No professional army, citizen farmers= citizen soldiers. C. 750-675: panoply (type of set of arms and armor) A soldier armed this way was called a hoplite- heavy infantryman (named after the shield (hoplan) distinctive item of the panoply.
