GRST 205 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1.2: Tyrant

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Greek and Roman Studies
• Course: GRST 205
• Professor: Colin Ash

Document Summary

Grst 205 assigned reading 2 (lyric poetry, archaic period, The lament of theognis (elegies: author of short poems during 6th century bce, aristocrat from megara, wrote about transmission of wisdom from adult to young male protige. Disruption of aristocratic social and political life by new wealth. Wealth confuses the proper order of things, nobility marrying nobility and commoners marrying commoners. Artemon written about very critically: words like: unwashed, wretched, made a (cid:862)fraudule(cid:374)t li(cid:448)i(cid:374)g (cid:272)o(cid:374)sorti(cid:374)g (cid:449)ith bread-wenches and whores-for- (cid:272)hoi(cid:272)e(cid:863) Emphasized he was previously a slave, now goes around in a coach wearing finery. Rhodopis the courtesan made pyramid for mycerinus (claims this is a false fact) If people had known who she was they never would have made this claim. He (cid:449)as a sla(cid:448)e a(cid:374)d thus (cid:272)ould(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e su(cid:272)h great a(cid:272)hie(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts: obtained her freedom and remained in egypt. Argued it was not enough money to build the pyramid.