CLST 404- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 181 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Footnotes and bibliography are included in the 10 - 15 page range. Sources for the topography of ancient athens: documentary sources. Ancient: greek and latin literature, inscriptions, coins and other monuments depicting buildings. Modern: reports of modern travellers in greece, drawings and sketches, early photos and maps. The way the human group organizes it. The way the human group changes it to fulfill its needs. A polis indicates a city-state but it can have different meanings depending on who is using the term and why. Alkaios: men are a warlike tower to the city : poet from the end of the 7th c, this seems to indicate that men are the ones who make the city, without men, there is not city. Nicias" words in thucydides, peloponnesian war: it is men that make the city, not walls nor ships devoid of men . The meaning of the word polis in greek literature.
