HUM 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Candaules, List Of Kings Of Lydia, Greco-Persian Wars
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Risen from enemies as a slur on the constitution. Demos = the people as a whole. Democracy has become virtually always a positive term. Is gona (equality of speech)/isonomia (equality of laws) Right of all athenians to speak before the assembly. Calls cleisthenes the one who established the tribes and the democracy. Ninevah (assyrian capital) conquered by the meads. Belonged to family of mixed greek and carian origins. Herodotous was exiled, and participated in colonization in southern italy. In 440s onward he worked on his work histories . Set out to record great deeds of both greeks and barbarians (non-greeks) Relate how greeks and barbarians came into conflict culminating in the. History descends from greek histori , which means inquiry . Did herodotus start out and write this from beginning to end in the current form (unitarians) or wrote individual discrete histories (such as the.
