CLA230H1 Lecture Notes - Athenian Democracy, Delian League, Greek Pyramids
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Persia gave the greeks their identity or the means for recognizing it . Two women, one persian, one doric one women struggled and the other didn"t , xerxes is trying to yoke the two empires together, asia and greece, persia submissive and greek women fights. Atossa if the son succeeds he gets admiration, if not he is not accountable to the community foreign concept to the greeks, all the leaders are accountable to the community, contrary to regular. Greek way of thinking, in which honor is zero sum. Xerxes at salamis not acting in an honorable way, runs away, acts like a woman in mourning, better to die standing like a man. Gender thing isn"t 100% here, but in other parts its clear that its not just. The destruction of persian power = free speech. A lot of this negativity is not directed at perisans in general, but mostly at xerxes.
