CLA237H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Tyrant, Palapa, Peisistratos
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Chapter 10- a tale of two archaic cities: sparta and athens, 700-480 bc. Faced problems between elites and the mases, b/w community and neighbouring states. They responded by creating internally egalitarian male citizen communities but in different ways. Sparta, state-owned serfs called helots worked the land while citizens followed a life-long program of military training in centralized institutions. Athens: encouraged markets and democratic practice; monogamous families were core institution. Spartan women developed parallel all female groups, athenians, drew boundaries within the household, headed by the senior male. Spartans saw themselves as conqueiring race, ruling over indigenous helots. Athenians believed they always lived in their own land. Spartans used helots as dependent labour, athenians turned to non-greek chattel slaves imported from overseas and privately owned. The spartan mirage: a vision of stability, hierarchy and order in which all knew their place. Contrast was athens which they saw as archetype of undisciplin, freedom and disorder.
