AR104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Tahiti, Doric Order, Sarissa
8 Dec 2012
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Up to this point the ideas have been confined to one city. Alexander the great turn our attention to macedonia. When an athenian refers to a macedonian it is in a pejorative sense. Highlands are thought of people who are below. Macedonia speak greek can only guess at what the language was, but can understand it as greek. On the fringes of the greek world. Macedonia has taken a different route than other greek cities. Still retains absolute kingship, kings as in homer, true kings with all the power. In a constant struggle for survival because of attacks from other northern tribes (not greeks but indo europeans) A balance of power the athenians and spartans have only recently faced. Athenians and spartans havenever faced constant threats. King of this time (amyntas) has decided to confront this problem and come up with some kind of solution by looking at the structure of the army that he has and innovating.
