HISTORY 36B Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Pederasty In Ancient Greece, Sophist, Phidias
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Formal education: tutors were available to instruct children (mostly boys) in mousike - Good for undertakers and gravediggers: subversive(seeking to disrupt an established system) ideas/provocative figures in polis (city state, nomos as both custom and law, thus some laws (customs) might not necessarily be obeyed. Local customs are the product of tradition rather than of abstract, unchanging principles of right and wrong: nomos (custom/law) vs. physis, thus custom/law might not necessarily be good. Physis and nomos, carried powerful implications for the legitimacy of authority: concept of law varied but ultimately law came from the gods, the questioning of what is real or true . Athens: athena promachus stood in front, 30 feet high and sculpted by phidias, shield in her left hand, spear in her right hand. Erechtheum: associated with numerous cults, olive tree of athena, salt spring of poseidon, crevice that contained the sacred snake that embodied the child god.
