CLA232H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Croesus, Peisistratos, Harmodius And Aristogeiton
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Life of solon by plutarch & political verses by solon. Internal divisions w/i greece and athens now the other is in the same group . When the alterity is us vs us, it is more problematic because run the risk of losing what unites us ( what makes us, us ) Athenian culture was defined against many others . there were also those who shared the poleis but not cit. Athenians prided themselves on elutheria and defined it w/i two extremes . Citizens could bring a court case of hubris if someone hit you, or made it seem like they were better than you. Citizens of a democracy were in the middle of these two extremes. Pisistraus -> prevailed over the other aristocrates: wounds himself, claims other ppl did it, asks for body guard, uses body guard to take over the acropolis. Pisistraus comes back with a woman acting like athena who wanted pisistraus to be king.
