HY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sophist, Delian League, Cimon
30 May 2018
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I.The Golden Age of Classical Greece
A. The Delian League
B. Periclean Athens
1. The strategos—general
2. Anti-Spartan foreign policy
3. Pushed reforms to make Athens more democratic
4. Ostracism of Cimon
5. Shifted power away from the Areopagus
6. Public building—public confidence
C. Literature and drama
1. Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.E.)
2. Sophocles (496-406 B.C.E.)
3. Euripides (485-406 B.C.E.)
4. Aristophanes (c. 448-382 B.C.E.)
5. Herodotus (c. 485-425 B.C.E.)
6. Thucydides (c. 460-c. 400 B.C.E.)
D. Art and architecture
1. Idealized beauty
2. The dignity of the unadorned human form
3. The Parthenon
E. Women and men in the daily life of Athens
1. Inequality of the sexes
2. A male world
3. Women in the shadows
a. Rearing of children to supply the infantry
b. A private space
c. Marriage
d. "Women's work"
F. Slavery
1. Athenian slavery widespread but small in scale
2. Most families owned at least one or two slaves
II. League Building and the Peloponnesian War
. Athenian control of the Delian League
A. Animosities and jealousies—had Athens become a tyranny?
B. The Peloponnesian War erupts
1. Athens and Sparta
2. A quick war?—a war of attrition
3. Pericles' naval strategy
4. Athenian plague
5. Alcibiades
6. Spartan victory
C. The end of the war
1. Lysander destroys the Athenian fleet (404 B.C.E.)
2. The Thirty Tyrants
3. Spartan success?
4. War brought demoralization and a questioning of former
certainties
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