CLAS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Eupatridae, Panathenaic Games, Harmodius And Aristogeiton

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

Document Summary

A tale of two archaic cities (ii) athens (ch. Archaic sparta started around the 9th century. Hoplite soldiers are to serve the phalanx: kids in the agoge would future serve as hoplite to serve the phalanx. First/ second messesian war: 743bc, helots were taken as slaves. Athens is located at a place called attica: they thought that their ancestors came from the ground themselves, the life cycle come out from the ground, geographically sparta and athens are very close. One very cultural group (athens) and the other the migrants (sparta) Mycenaean collapse: when sparta collapse, the athenians survived. At the end of the dark age, 8th century bc: class division, and they were ruled by eupatridae. They were wealthy and had power in politics. Year 632 bc a celebrity (cylon) attempted to start a revolution was evidence of this stress of the eupatridae and other classes. Alcmaeonidae, when his revolution was a fail and their was a violence responds.