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Life in the Archaic Age

Life in the Archaic Age. The Race of Iron and the Tyrants who Ruled Greece. What happens after Homer?. “I wish I were not included among the fifth race of men, but rather had died before, or been born after it. This is the iron race” Hesiod, Works and Days 174-176 (700 BC).

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Life in the Archaic Age

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  1. Life in the Archaic Age The Race of Iron and the Tyrants who Ruled Greece

  2. What happens after Homer? • “I wish I were not included among the fifth race of men, but rather had died before, or been born after it. This is the iron race” Hesiod, Works and Days 174-176 (700 BC)

  3. Hesiod’s World • Poetry after Homer • “all the people look up to him as with fair justice he grants his verdict and with sure resolution and wisdom he brings a quick end to some great strife.” Theogony 81-96

  4. The Lyric Poets • Archilochus (680-640 BC) • “I hate a tall captain, one who swaggers, and is smooth-shaven. Give me a stout and square man, set firmly on his legs, heart-full, not to be shaken from the spot he sets his feet.” • “There are no privileged soldiers on the battlefield.”

  5. The Lyric Poets, Part II • Sappho of Lesbos (600 BC) • “Some might say an army of horsemen, others of infantry, others of sea-vessels, is the most welcome sight on the dark earth, but I say it is whatever you love the most” • “That man seems to me as strong as a god, that man who sits near you, and listens to your honeyed talk.

  6. Archaic Age: 700-490 • World In Decline • Debt-Slavery • Country to City

  7. Colonization 700-500 BC • New opportunity • Economic Benefits • Political Power

  8. Age of Tyrants: 670-500 • What is a tyrant? • Revolution • Polycrates

  9. Hoplite Armies 650 BC • Rise to Power • Aid to Tyrants • Fighting ranks

  10. Beyond Borders . . . The Hellenes • Panhellenism • First Olympic Games 776 BC • Homeric Poems 750 BC • Common Religion

  11. Summary • Greece is poised on the brink of . . . • The Persian Wars • Athenian Democracy • A Golden Age

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