Shown before the class begins as a "warmup" activity. It includes both review and preview material.

1. Ancient Greece
session iii - Colonies & Tyrants

2. Ancient Greece
session iii - Colonies & Tyrants

3. course outline
i - Origins
ii - Polis
iii - Colonies & Tyrants
iv - Sparta & Athens
v - Great Wars, 490-404
vi - Golden Age
vii - Second Military Revolution
viii - Hellenism

4. Major Points in the last Session
Greek beliefs about justice were Kagan’s “key”to the polis
a polis is the unique type of ancient Greek city-state
Athens was the greatest polis
the agrarian revolution began as Greece recovered from the
Dark Ages
it was driven by new techniques of intensive agriculture and
begat prosperity and private property on family farms
these new farmers demanded political rights in return for
their military service
the hoplite soldier-farmers became the essence of the polis

5. Questions to answer in this session
why did Greeks colonize? how did they do it?
where were the colonies?
what were their significance? for the Greeks? their neighbors?
why did the tyrants appear?
what were their governments like?
what did they accomplish?

6. review of the previous
sessions

8. Aristotle

9. Delphi
treasure house

12. Discus of Phaistos

13. Knossos--restored palace

14. Heinrich
Schliemann

15. sessions remaining
iv - Sparta & Athens
v - Great Wars, 490-404
vi - Golden Age
vii - Second Military Revolution
viii - Hellenism

16. Major Points in the last Session
Greek beliefs about justice were Kagan’s “key”to the polis
a polis is the unique type of ancient Greek city-state
Athens was the greatest polis
the agrarian revolution began as Greece recovered from the
Dark Ages
it was driven by new techniques of intensive agriculture and
begat prosperity and private property on family farms
these new farmers demanded political rights in return for
their military service
the hoplite soldier-farmers became the essence of the polis

17. Questions to answer in this session
why did Greeks colonize? how did they do it?
where were the colonies?
what were their significance? for the Greeks? their neighbors?
why did the tyrants appear?
what were their governments like?
what did they accomplish?

18. Sophia
Schliemann
wearing
“Priam’s
treasure”

19. Mycenae--the lion’s gate

20. Mycenae--reconstruction

21. Mycenae--acropolis

22. Mycenae--tholos tomb

23. grave goods from a Mycenean shaft grave
replicas

24. the “mask of Agamemnon”

25. Homer

26. “The wrath of Achilles”
Leon Benouville

27. Odysseus

28. “Jupiter and Thetis”
Jean Dominique Ingres

29. Zeus at Olympia
Roman copy of Phideias

30. Napoleon i
j.d. Ingres

31. Lincoln
Daniel Chester French

33. Troy

34. The Blegen Library
University of Cincinnati

36. Linear B

37. proto-Greek in
a Phoenician alphabet

40. the Lelantine War

41. Heroön at Lefkandi

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

45. Justice Astraea (in the stars)

46. [The Athenian] Acropolis, Leo von Klenze

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

54. Victor Davis Hanson
(1953-)

56. a master and two
slaves work
together harvesting
olives

58. Olive oil production in Klazomenai,
an ancient city of Ionia
( now, near Urla, Izmir, Turkey)

62. transport amphora serving amphora

65. Harmodius & Aristogeton kill the tyrant Hipparchus

66. the Chigi vase, 4th c. BC

68. ὁπλίτης
hoplite

70. παιάν
paean
παιάν

72. preview of today’s session

80. ΠΙΘΕΚΥΣΑΙ

87. Questions to answer in this session
why did Greeks colonize? how did they do it?
where were the colonies?
what were their significance? for the Greeks? their neighbors?
why did the tyrants appear?
what were their governments like?
what did they accomplish?

99. Questions to answer in this session
why did Greeks colonize? how did they do it?
where were the colonies?
what were their significance? for the Greeks? their neighbors?
why did the tyrants appear?
what were their governments like?
what did they accomplish?

106. Questions to answer in this session
why did Greeks colonize? how did they do it?
where were the colonies?
what were their significance? for the Greeks? their neighbors?
why did the tyrants appear?
what were their governments like?
what did they accomplish?