Classical Age Flashcards
classical age
500-323
oligarcy
ruled by the few
democracy
citizens were allowed a vote
Sparta
politics: 2 kings, army generals
economy: dominates large parcels of land
independent allies
gerousia
2 kings
28 elders
helots
greek slaves to sparta
Athens
Politics: power given to weaker members
economy: inequality among citizens
neighbors were enveloped into athens
slaves
debt
chattel
solon
594 classes of citizens all citizens could vote state funds freed debt slaves poor were given access to land
cleisthenes
508
140 demes into 30 trittyes into 10 tribes
tribes
went to war as a unit
forced cooperation
50 people toward council of 500
ostracism
removal of one citizen from athens
needed a margin of 6000 votes
given 10 days to leave
stay away for 10 years
delian league
athens and allies
huge wealth to athens
treasurey in delos
Naxos and thasos
want out of delian league in 460
athens says no
complain to sparta
relocation of treaurey
454
from delos to athens
Herotodus
480-420
Halicarnassus
father of history - persian war
wanted to explain the outcome
Thucydides
460-400 greatest historian failed war general exiled for 20 years rejects divine explanation morality wrote from 431-411
hippocrates
460
medical
case studies
able to diagnose based on the past documentation of symptoms
pericles
495-429
elected from 443-429
parthenon
built 447-432
temple for athena
decorated with sculpture
propylaea
bulit 437-432
transition from commonplace to sacred place
erectheum
built 420
3 parts to deal with landscape
for founding hero of athens
half to athena, half to Poseidon and erictheas
temple of athena nike
victory
optimism about peloponnesian war
euripides
485-406 non successful at competition used sympathy complex characters used music in a special way tragedy and satyr