POLS 2510 Lecture 4: 4. Fourth Class note
14 Sep 2016
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Comment: in the ancient world they took thing literal. Greek religion: romer (800 bce) & hesiod (before 700 bce) illiad. Gods: do not die, have bodies from time to time (corrdorial, duties are more powerful than normal humans, gods can have sex and children, rights of purification, purification: kalon(beauty) , scapegoats, pharmakos, aesop. Political organization in various periods: the dark ages 1100-800 bce: these cities because larger and dominate the cities around them. Hellenes: archatic period: 800-479 bce: 4 themes. Becoming a member of that city state. A direct cause of imperialism is democracy: democracy in athens: run by an assembly, they met 40 times a year.
