[CLASSICS 1A03] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (16 pages long!)
7 Feb 2017
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Monday, january 16, 2017: need more social institutions and complex systems, phalanx - type of warfare, dark age starts at 1100 after mycean period. Acropolis was defensible as it was distant from the sea and on a rock. Once had a king that was replaced during the dark ages, duties taken over by magistrates called archons. Multiple archons 9 in a year, managed political affairs while religious duties were given to priests. Eupatrids = wealthy aristocracy that has political control: decisions about disputes about wealth. Draco (drakon) wrote out a code of laws for the city: gave death penalty for a wide range of offences. Went through a period of tyranny: peisistratus was tyrant by marrying daughter of megacles, men from beyond the hills, lycurgus and the men of the plain, megacles and the men of the shore. Dies and his sons hippias and hipparchus take over power and mostly follow their father"s rule.
