Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Tetralogy, Ancient Greek Comedy, Oresteia

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Alexis Dolphin

Document Summary

After the peloponnesian war: nothing is the same after. World war 1: europe was the main power and fought each other for the first time. Like the greeks: mass slaughter, people wanted to go back to normal after. Theme of crisis: change vs. continuity, shifting hegemony, economic disruption, change in classic ideas of the polis, military innovation. Knocks down athenian walls and make their own government. Go out and take over the islands that were apart of the. Starts to get out that sparta used persian money: sparta panics and wants to attack persia, don"t really get anywhere, persia starts to fund athens now, spartan allies turn against them, thebes, corinth, greek islands. Sparta looses their morals with money: spartan soldiers see a different world outside of. Sparta and they like it: they have a problem keeping their soldiers in tact. Athens and the thirty tyrants: pro- spartans, moderates, democrats.