Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Greco-Persian Wars, Peloponnesian War, Iliad

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Christopher Brown

Document Summary

Persian wars: helped define greeks as greeks whereas peloponnesian war was greeks vs. Greeks: greek warfare, persians, athenians, spartans, the conflict. One must realize that war is shared and conflict is justice, and that all things come to pass in accordance to conflict . Argues that conflict drives the whole system of world. It is a dynamic of things being justified by a blow for blow tactic. War is the father of all and king of all; and some he shows as gods, others as men; some he makes slaves, others free. war actually determines who and what we are. It touches on the fact that you never knew what you were going to get with war in the ancient world. Important statements of this in both homer and aristotle. This accounts, in part at least, for the exclusion of women from political and public life: victory in war was seen as indicative of divine favour.