POL 2107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Participatory Democracy, Sophocles, Western Philosophy

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2107
• Professor: Sophie Bourgault

Document Summary

Greek miracle should be taken with a grain of salt as things did not spring up suddenly or miraculously and was purchased at a very high price. Lead up to the classical period: the bronze age (3,000-1,000 b. c. , milesian civilization located mainly on crete, one of main palaces was located in. Thebes on the greek mainland: bases of the stories in the poetry of homer (criticised by plato, trojan war: 1194-1184 bc, central war that shaped the greek imagination at the time, the dark ages (1100-750) (referenced by plato) Literacy returned, revival of the greek heroes of the bronze age (important for. Tragedy was born, flourished, and died within 90 years: turned out to be almost exclusively an athenian phenomenon. Connections between democracy and tragedy: athens democratic ethos provided the right impotence and amount of freedom to reflect creatively on the nature of justice, etc, divine laws vs. man-made laws.