AHCL 2301H Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Panathenaic Games, Popular Assembly, Epinikion

• School: Trent University
• Department: Ancient Greek & Roman Studies
• Course: AHCL 2301H
• Professor: George Kovacs

Document Summary

Stesichorus (= he who sets up the chorus) Lyric poet, but with epic subject matter: nostoi (return), palinode (on. Helen), oresteia, sack of troy, hunters of the boar etc. Originally thought to be exclusively chorus, but a book 1500 lines long. Persian invasions: 492, 490 (battle of marathon, 26miles from athens), 480- 479 bce: greeks defend and win, battle of thermopylae, 480 bce: 300 spartans, battle of salamis, 480 bce: athenians sacrifice own city to defeat the. Athens, sparta, thebes, argos, corinth (all majorly powerful cities: boosted innovated times during classical period; thucydides 2. 37. 1 (pericles); evidence of a democracy, herodotus 7. 144; evidence of the navy; athens wealth to build the navy. Athens aimed to have a pan-hellenic navy; most cities just gave athens the money that was later stored on delas called the delian league; but brought it back to athens therefore creating athenian empire with allies under. Hired and performed to elites (professionalized poetry-writing)