Classical Studies 1000 Midterm: Textbook Notes February Midterm.docx

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

Document Summary

Special military training in 2 year parts: 1st year spent military barracks in the piraeus, 2nd year apprentice hoplites in colonies. Kind of military service necessary in a state that was almost permanently at war and constantly deploying forces overseas: sparta, naked exercises were institutionalized in a festival. Involved young boys: attended by spartan king, prelude to strenuous military training to come. Cloister suggesting visual image of the stoa: stoa: colonnades attached to temples that gave shade from the sun in the heat of the summer. Founder of the school, zeno, did teaching there: gymnasiums were municipally owned, marks importance of their function in the life of the polis, analogous institution of the paletra (literally wrestling floor) was privately owned. Hermes, playtime, high day and holiday for the boys of athens: evidently a place of contemplation and celebration of the body, socrates and criatias see a beautiful youth and ask about him.