The document outlines a course on the Golden Age of Ancient Greece, highlighting key topics such as the military revolution, Hellenism, and contributions from philosophers like Plato and Aristotle. It discusses significant historical events like the Peloponnesian War and the role of influential figures, including Pericles and Thucydides, while posing questions about the era's art, tragedy, and the evolution of science and philosophy. The overall aim is to explore the context and impact of this critical period in Greek history.

1. Ancient Greece
Part ii
session i - Golden Age

2. Ancient Greece
Part ii
session i - Golden Age

3. course outline
i - Golden Age
ii - Second Military Revolution
iii - Hellenism
iv -Justice & Power
v - Plato
vi -Aristotle
vii -Machiavelli
viii -Hobbes

4. Major Points in last Spring’s last class
Kagan compared 5th century Greek leagues to the Cold War
when Athens crushed Thasos the Delian League was viewed as
a tyrannical empire
the struggle for hegemony sowed the seeds of war
Thucydides explained the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War
as the result of Sparta’s fear of the Athenian empire
the Sicilian expedition was a tremendous blow to Athens
Athens managed to stay in the war after 413 because of her
navy
she finally lost because of Persian gold which financed a
Spartan navy which could destroy her sea power

5. Questions to answer in this session
why is the Golden Age often called the Age of Pericles?
what are the various forms of art which this age produced?
how did Greek playwrights give birth to the tragedy?
how did science and philosophy come to replace myth and
religion as the educational foundation for the upper class?
what is the Socratic method?
what is Plato’s theory of Forms?
how did the discipline of history begin?
what explains the stature of Thucydides as one of the greatest,
perhaps the greatest, historians?

6. review of last Spring’s
sessions

8. Heinrich
Schliemann

9. the “mask of Agamemnon”

10. Homer

11. “Jupiter and Thetis”
Jean Dominique Ingres

12. Odysseus

13. Troy

18. Η Δικαιοσὖνη
Τό τί;
“[the] Justice.
“What [is] it?”
Plato, Republic

19. [The Athenian] Acropolis, Leo von Klenze

22. “FROGS AROUND A POND”--
SOCRATES, IN THE PHAEDO

23. Victor Davis Hanson
(1953-)

24. hoplite kleros

25. a master, two
slaves and a
boy work
together harvesting
olives

27. transport amphora serving amphora

28. the Chigi vase, 4th c. BC

33. ΠΙΘΕΚΥΣΑΙ
Pithecusai-the first apoikia

34. Corinthian trade goods

36. Black Sea
Europe
Bosphorus
Sea of Marmara
Aegean
Sea
Dardanelles
Asia

44. the myth of Gyges

45. tyranny & public works--”water houses”

49. a
Spartan
warrior

50. Mount Taygetus
Sparta

57. ἢ τὰν ἢ ἐπὶ τᾶς
(eh tan eh epi tas)

59. Athenian education

61. Young scholar followed by his pedagogue

62. instruction by a sophist

63. The Panathenaeum

65. SOLŌN

66. The Pottery
“factory”

67. State promotion
of the
fine arts,
here a sculpture
of Aphrodite
for a temple

68. mid 6th
century
factions

69. PEISISTRATOS

70. Harmodius and Aristogeton, the tyrannicides, kill Hipparchos
in 514 BC but fail to kill his brother, the tyrant Hippias

71. Cleisthenes

72. Aristotle’s Athenian constitution

73. Ostrakon

74. The Alcmaeonidai

75. War is the father of all--Heraclitus

76. THE GREATEST EMPIRE THE WORLD
HAD EVER SEEN UP TO THAT TIME

77. Μιλτιάδης ὁ Νεώτερος
Miltiades the Younger
c. 550 BCE – 489 BCE

81. the Persian
“Immortals”
at the Louvre

82. Miltiades’ helmet as
a votive offering

85. Xerxes’ bridge across the Hellespont

86. Thermopylae

95. the
island
of
Thasos

96. the Long Walls

98. ancient
Corcyra

101. Pericles’ funeral oration

102. Sparta’s
humiliation
at
Sphacteria

107. Alcibiades
c. 450-404

108. his rakish youth

111. Alcibiades’victory at Cyzicus, 410

112. Finale

113. preview of today’s session

118. artist’s version of the Parthenon
as originally decorated

119. Aphrodite of Milos (Greek:
Ἀφροδίτη τῆς Μήλου, Aphroditē tēs
Mēlou), better known as the Venus de
Milo

120. The Discobolus
of Myron ("discus
thrower" Greek
Δισκοβόλος,
"Diskobolos"

121. Exekias (Εξηκίας, a
Greek name) was an
ancient Greek vase-
painter and potter, who
worked between
approximately 550 BC -
525 BC at Athens

129. Relationships Among the Pre-Socratic Philosophers

130. Pythagoras and his followers salute the sunrise-Fyodor Bronnikov, 1869

133. Πλάτων, Plátōn
428/27 BC – 348/347 BC

135. The Republic

136. Ἀριστοτέλης, Aristotélēs
384 BC – 322 BC

137. Ἡρόδοτος (Hēródotos) born in
Halicarnassus, Caria (modern
day Bodrum, Turkey)
5th century BC
(c. 484 BC – c. 425 BC)

138. Θουκυδίδης,
Thoukydídēs
c. 460 BC – c. 395 BC

139. Questions to answer in this session
why is the Golden Age often called the Age of Pericles?
what are the various forms of art which this age produced?
how did Greek playwrights give birth to the tragedy?
how did science and philosophy come to replace myth and
religion as the educational foundation for the upper class?
what is the Socratic method?
what is Plato’s theory of Forms?
how did the discipline of history begin?
what explains the stature of Thucydides as one of the greatest,
perhaps the greatest, historians?