CLA160H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Debt Bondage, Oligarchy, Kyrios
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Topics: class and gender, democracy, events leaders. With power comes culture, literature, foreign/domestic policy, etc. connection between culture, politics, and society. Classical athens socio-political themes democracy development/nature of constituent parts of society social classes, gender: political art, artistic politics. Population at its height in the 430s b. c. population was at its highest about 150,000 citizens, half males, half male thetes citizens bar was raised property ownership was needed for citizenship about 50,000 metics, male and female. Metics could not own property, but were valued for their skills about 100,000 slaves there were many slaves athens was a slave base plague kills about one third of the population - at the beginning of the. Peloponnesian war after the plague, there were only about 200,000 people in athens. Men displayed as naked in art women were always clothed. Marriage and death rituals women take the role of displaying happiness and sadness sometimes quite public.
