Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Asteroid Family, Greek Mythology, Archaic Greece
5 Nov 2012
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Sept 24, 2012: example: greek mythology, olympics. Like every culture, the greeks thought they were more superior from barbarians: the most consistent reason was the. Greeks lived in a polis where everyone else were slaves. Wealth and war: smaller extremes of wealth, every- one was more or less the same, hoplites are soldiers for the city states, the tactic they used in wars was called phalanx. That tends to encourage people to demand for equality. Little bureaucracy; a system of gov- ernment in which most of the impor- tant decisions are made by state offi- cials rather than by elected represen- tatives. Little revenues made: governance: the assembly of the people, a council of elders, elders cho- sen leaders, tyrant says: we"re gonna build a park, give me money! Autonomy of the polis: exclusively to this polis. If we keep expanding our bonds with new people, we"ll loose them. So woman and slaves had to be ruled.
