CLAS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Roman–Persian Wars, Laurium, Croesus
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No possibility of gay marriage in ancient greece (marriage is only for producing offspring) Men having sexual relationships with minors (male ages 13-18) and took him under his wing. Spartans are also part of something called the peloponnesian league: helot = slave (macinians, league meet when sparta calls it. If spartans are defeated, they would have a massive rebellion on a part the macinians. In sparta, property is not a big issue (they receive property from macinians; not worried about passing on estate: spartan women had a great deal of independence. Not going to go to war with any country that has made similar descisions. Athens is going to come off as a big winner of these wars: no one thought of it as an imperialist power. War will lead to prosperity which leads to massive cultural development. There were always tensions between the 2: zeus rapes io (hera catches sight of him; she"s the wife of zeus)