CLAS 1051 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Tyrant, Croesus, Herophilos

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Note: these are notes i hand wrote and transferred into a digital format. Understanding plutarch: story of solon and croesus: access to vast number of texts that were subsequently lost, at his best about the aeropagus b. i. Most writers say that it was founded by solon b. ii. Ruled out some things by so called rules of chronology e. i. 1. Indicates critical historical traditions already late in the 6th century: chronological problem f. i. Solon"s archonship was in 594/593 bc and traveled for 10 years after this f. iii. Floating stories attached to a logical person f. iii. 1. Story of the tripod: plutarch, solon pages 4-5 f. iii. 1. a. A good story about a wise man giving advice to a foolish f. iii. 2. king f. iii. 3. Attached to solon, a famous wise man, regardless of exact dates f. iv. People have a story and attach it to real, famous people f. v. Oral traditions fit past to present needs f. v. 1. f. v. 2. Herodotus, when the story gets written down f. v. 3.

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