01:510:302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Piraeus, Metic, Propylaea
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Recap: war between athens vs. sparta/allies - now a truce and are fighting against. Persians: athenians fighting in cyprus (salamis) to stop persian/medists, 449, where. It had been extended to middle class but the poor often couldn"t afford to be an archon (expensive job, could not take off work to take this position) Imperial revenues for payments cw #137, #141 (politicization: liturgic system (service, began during themistocles, trierarchy = command of a warship. #153: choruses in dramas and comedies, overall at this time it was good to have an athenians citizenship, citizenship law of pericles 451, narrowed the criteria now you need both parents to be. Athenians and have a legitimate marriage: but people often intermarried pericles cut thisoff and general grants of citizenship. Social consequences of empire and democracy: resources shifted from allies to athenians and from the rich to the poor.