CLA 1101 Lecture 17: Lecture 17 Athens II

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 1101
• Professor: Heather Loube

Document Summary

Reading: c/f:126 -133 plus reconstruction of the acropolis below! Tau is for tyrannicides (p. 118) last phoenician-derived letters. Solon"s economic reforms: every man had to teach son(s) a trade (like a farmer or craftsmen, illegal to not have an occupation, import foreign craftsmen and give them citizenship, no longer an agricultural based economy. Peisistratos: tyrant of athens who improved peiraieus. Themistokles: fortified, linked to center of polis, imports, grains from the black sea area and sicily, exports, anything made of silver, olive oil, and red figure pottery. Open to men, women, slave, anyone rich or poor (anyone who spoke greek) Sacred way: caryatid (p. 132: paraded along with music, singing and various ceremonies (22km, priestess carried a cista on her head (does not know what was inside, entrance of sanctuary: caryatid columns. Telesterion: rites: hall of the mysteries, tired seats, entrance, roofed over with building in middle, held thousands of seats. Panathenaic way: path towards the acropolis.