CLASSIC 10A Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Postcolonialism, Astyages, Aeschylus
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Inspires spartans to valor and obedience to the law. Immortality through glory, but not individual glory (vs. homer) Midterm: iliad, odyssey, homeric hymns, hesiod, lyric poetry. No bronze age, dark age, history of archaic period, spartan and athenian constitution. Next thursday: quiz on archaic period, formation of the polis, colonization, cr forest. History of the archaic period (narrative, don"t worry about the account of the persian. Born before 490bc in helicarnassus (western coast of asia minor) Traveled to samos, athens, southern italy, egypt, gaza, tyre, babylon, 1st historian of the western tradition: father of histories . Historical method: records things seen and heard . Corroborate traditions by examining monuments: results of inquiry , states alternate versions, reserves judgment. Slated purpose of his work: trace origin of conflict between the persians and the greeks, conflict between the east and the west, edward said (1978, orientalism) classic work of post-colonial theory, aeschylus" persae (after 480 bc)
