CLA232H1 Lecture : Persian Wars
Document Summary
O remember that the difference between two cultures is how you define happiness (recall story of creosus and solon). Greeks and the barbarians is how greeks defined themselves. Herodotus really tells the differences that will lead to the persian war, and will be the states in the war: greek wisdom travels through persia and comes back to its greek audience. Cultural difference and cultural conflict: he is interested in cultural difference and how they lead to conflict, as they do in the persian wars, we will be looking at the ethnography on both sides. He is looking at how these ethnographic differences result in war. Part of his thesis is that culture both causes and explains war and that war. Books 1-4 are discussing the ethnography- all the different cultures that will be involved. As the persian forces start to develop, we will learn all about these forces that were part of the persian empire can reveal and affect culture.
