HIST 2850 Lecture 3: Lecture 3 - Pre- & Archaic Greece

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8 Apr 2016
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Traditionally the date of the rst olympics cultural return. Creation of the polis (city-state) abandoned notion of kings collapse of large power > local power? two major poles: athens, and sparta. Iliad is best. way better than the odyssey description of the fall of troy, which fell around 1200bc mythical attempt to describe the end of the mycenaean kingdom"s rule overview: abduction of helen of sparta by paris of troy. **know about achilles, his love of autonomy and freedom model of how the greeks built themselves. Macedonians clung to that idea of kingship heavily in uenced philip & alexander: ethics and values esp. Achilles and his rejection of external control violent belief in his own independence. What we see in the murder of agamemnon mythical history preserves the end of the mycenaean kingship oligarchic revolutions. Odysseus nds his own palace overcome with aristocratic men trying to claim power.

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