Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Narrative Poetry, Homeric Question, Archaic Greece

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Christopher Brown

Document Summary

Panhellenic religious festivals proliferated and grew in importance. Civil unrest: a by-product of the stratification of society, an aristocratic elite is naturally complement by a subordinate poor, tensions within communities (poor and rich) City-state (polis) is a convenient modern term to describe the most conspicuous political unit of. Archaic and classical greece: a central city and its surrounding territory, ex: athens, attica. The ideology, values, government form of the people is what makes up the city: one of the most famous remarks by aristotle: man (humankind) is a political animal. Human beings by nature involve in politics is not what aristotle meant: he meant that by nature humans are a creature of the polis, we belong in a political setting. A different type of social organization would not be a natural setting for humanity- the polis is what is natural for us. Polis: central city and its surrounding territory. Idea of the state arose in the archaic world.