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Hist Lect 8
Course: HIST 1001, Spring 2008School: LSU
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the Athens: Acropolis Classical culture and the Athenian Golden Age Wealth of Empire and the glories of Art and Architecture Reasons for it, and the conditions The Imperial Capital Athens' fight for political survival (Fifth Century B.C.E.) Art as a "political" (polis-based) form of expression Glory and power of the Athenian Empire on display Temples of Athena (Parthenon); Zeus; Hephaestus...
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the Athens: Acropolis
Classical culture and the Athenian Golden Age
Wealth of Empire and the glories of Art and Architecture Reasons for it, and the conditions The Imperial Capital Athens' fight for political survival (Fifth Century B.C.E.)
Art as a "political" (polis-based) form of expression Glory and power of the Athenian Empire on display Temples of Athena (Parthenon); Zeus; Hephaestus
Remains of the Theatre of Dionysus, Athens
Greater and Lesser Dionysia
Religious festivals and dramatic competitions The major tragedians: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
Themes of drama: of political/communal importance, aimed at the polis (the citizen body) Comedy: Aristophanes (and others; also "political") Imperial context... but also: with the democracy in mind
Athens: the Pnyx (Assembly place)
Pericles
Athens and the democratic system: praised in Pericles' speech System started 510 B.C.E., with the expulsion of the tyrants
"Wide-open" democracy male (adult citizens) ... compare to Sparta
Democracy in its purest form: the original ostraka
Majority votes of the citizen assembly: all laws and major decisions Annual officials (archons and generals)
"Council of 500:" chosen by lot
Athens: the Agora, seen from the Acropolis
Philosophy and the "Marketplace of ideas:" An offshoot of democracy, or a condition for it?
The open forum of debate: Agora (the marketplace)
Socrates (not a contemporary portrait)
Socrates and the defiance of convention
Criticisms of democracy; challenge to the Sophists
War and democracy: were they "bad for each other?"
The political and imperial context of Athenian art, literature & philosophy "Class warfare" and Athenian imperialism
Great Panathenaia festival: Every four years
The Parthenon: Praise to Athena (i.e., to Athens!)
Symbolism of Athena, the patron goddess of Athens (and of the empire)
Political significance of religious ideas
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