CLST 100 Lecture Notes - Cleisthenes, Phyle, Peisistratos

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 100
• Professor: Christina Zaccagnino

Document Summary

Theophrastos from eresos wrote inquiry into plants which taught people how to use different plants for different symptoms of illness: he also taught how to fake illness with certain plants to avoid work. Epitaphioi funeral speeches: the speeches spoke a lot of honour (time) and glory (doxa) It was important to preserve the memory of the deceased by acknowledging all their good qualities in speeches. When a person died there was prosthesis ; the dead were dressed, cleansed, and then mourned by close family and friends. The funeral (ekphora) consisted of the body being brought to the cemetery or the family tombs when it was dark outside. Funerals were one of the rare occasions women left the house and could socialize with other women. In 400 bce steles began to appear in graves. Solon: his constitution was based on ownership of property. There was tyranny in athens, specifically peisistratos, and hippias and.