CLAS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Polykleitos, Pre-Socratic Philosophy, Contrapposto

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 1000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

Classics lec#12: a tale of two archaic cities/ art and thought in the fifth century bc ch. 14. Spartan mirage- everything written about sparta and the spartans was written by non- Spartans saw themselves ethnically related to the dorians who came outside of the greek world. Athenians believed that their ancestors emerged out of the earth itself. Their only mutual belief was in independence. Both did not want to be absorbed into the. In corinth in 481 athens and sparta came together. Third day at thermopylae almost all spartans die because a greek guy told the persian army a way around thermopylae. Vctory won at the battle of salamis due to athenian trireme. In 479 at plataea a large spartan army (10,000) found remnants of xerxes army and destroyed it entirely: aristodemus lead a single man charge against the persians redeeming himself for surviving the slaughter at thermopylae. Persians never again successfully managed to invade the greek world.