CLST 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Heroic Nudity, Medes, Ars Amatoria
29 Mar 2018
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Theseus cursing hippolytus is the only parallel you can draw to medea killing her children. Deus ex machina used to display her flying off in her dragon chariot: also used to describe a theme of a very fast wrap up that"s almost clumsy and overly simplistic. Can"t really get roman literature and history without greek ignorance. Oligarchic: even when they were somewhat democratic, they were always run by a smaller body of families. Extremely efficient and large military capability: powered by their access to farmland, which allowed them to feed the populace. March 29, 2018: they had such a large number of soldiers that no one could beat them just be sheer numbers. Greek education was considered to be the best. Believed themselves to be the first to have kings in 753: they have a list of 7 kings ending with the tarquinii. Kings are kicked out and republic was founded in 509 bce: athenian democracy was founded in 510.
