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Beginnings …

Beginnings …. How to decode a book … Preliminary information Structure Audience Key terms demokratia ( AGD 1): demos ( AGD 3) + kratos polis ( AGD 2) popular assembly ( ekklesia ) representative council ( boule ) popular courts ( dikasterion, pl. dikasteria )

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Beginnings …

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  1. Beginnings … • How to decode a book … • Preliminary information • Structure • Audience • Key terms • demokratia (AGD 1): demos (AGD 3) + kratos • polis (AGD 2) • popular assembly (ekklesia) • representative council (boule) • popular courts (dikasterion, pl. dikasteria) • magistrates/officials • ostracism • Views of democracy from Socrates & Plato to 1846 • “A sampling of English-language works …” (AGD pp. 4-5)

  2. Preliminaries … • Map of Mediterranean basin • Bronze Age Greece (ca. 2000-1200 BCE) • The role of archaeology: Heinrich Schliemann and Sir Arthur Evans • Mask of Agamemnon • Collapse of Bronze Age ca. 1200 BCE • Trojan War: ca. 1200 BCE? • Dark age: ca. 1200-800 BCE • Homeric Age: ca. 800-700 BCE

  3. The Homeric age: cultural values • What are the principal cultural values among the Achaians (= Greeks) at Troy, in Ithaca, and in Hesiod’s world? • Group 1: Homer Iliad 1.1-305 (AGD pp. 8-15) • Group 2: Homer Iliad 2.1-282 (AGD pp. 15-21) • Group 3: Homer Odyssey 2.1-259 (AGD pp. 15-21) • Group 4: Hesiod Theogony ll. 8-97; Works and Days ll. 213-269 (AGD pp. 26-27)

  4. The Homeric age: cultural values • Agon: “aggressive self-assertive competition.” Where did this occur? • Reciprocity: how does one show philia (“hospitality”)? Help one’s philoi (“friends”) and harm one’s exhthroi (“enemies”) • Saving face: how did the Greeks save face? • Time (“honor,” “value”) & aidos (“shame”) 

  5. Time and Aidos • How, and where, did the Greeks demonstrate time? • Was this a public or private value, and why? • How, and where, did the Greeks demonstrate aidos? • Was this a public or private value, and why?

  6. Political action and thought • What kinds of political (< polis, or “city-state”) activity can you detect in your passage(s)? • For example, how do the various segments of Homeric society interact? Are there rules for interaction? • Are the Greeks – or is Homer – conscious of political interaction? • Are there models of social behavior? Are there causes, and consequences, for certain behaviors or (inter)actions?

  7. For Friday … • What are Raaflaub’s main arguments in favor of Homeric political thought? • Does Edmunds support or refute Raaflaub’s position? • Does Morris support or refute Raaflaub’s position? • What is the evidence each employs to do so? • Groups 1, 2: present and critique Raaflaub’s and Edmunds’ positions • Groups 3, 4: present and critique Morris’ position

  8. Other beginnings … • How are you coping with the first week? • What are the challenges you’ve faced, and what strategies have worked?

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