CLA160H1 Lecture Notes - Stola, Tyrant, Persian Princess
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Just absorb more the developments and trends rather than the individual events. Athens was frightened of the empire (and so started the war) Stasis= means revolution (in the last 10 years athens was in a mess) By the 350s, the greeks had fought themselves to exhaustion. We will see the aggression of philip down to greek mainland. The origins and culture and ethnicity of the macedonians. Throughout the entire bronze age there was a continuous culture (single, unified, that shared same settlments and potter. Because so far north, mycenaeans did not influence macedonians much. Possibly that"s why theire not considered greeks as such. Later there was illyrian influence (west) in these tombs. Also hear from herodotus story that an exile from argos (dorian greek city) Went to macedonia and was a shephered originally. At 650 there was change in macedonian culture. Macedonian were not politically unified, there were tribes, could not organize defence when perisan forces came through.