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Athenian tyrannicides Harmodius and Aristogeiton Roman copy of a 477 BCE (lost) original, itself a copy of the 514 BCE original The age of tyrants ( τύραννοι : turannoi , sg . τ ύραννος : tyrannos ) & tyranny ( τύραννις : tyrannis ). Delphi. Sikyon. Delos. Paros. Dreros.
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Athenian tyrannicidesHarmodius and AristogeitonRoman copy of a 477 BCE (lost) original, itself a copy of the 514 BCE original The age of tyrants (τύραννοι: turannoi, sg. τύραννος: tyrannos) & tyranny (τύραννις: tyrannis)
Delphi Sikyon Delos Paros Dreros
Law-code of Dreros, eastern Crete, 650-600 BCE “May God be kind. This has been decided by the city: When a man has been kosmos, for 10 years that same man shall not be kosmos. If he should become kosmos, whatever [invalid] judgments he gives, he himself shall owe double, and he shall be useless as long as he lives, and what he does as kosmosshall be as nothing. The swearers (to this shall be) the kosmos, the demioiand the Twenty of the city.”
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Ancient Corinth from above (on Acrocorinth) Ancient Corinth Temple of Apollo
Patronage: art and commerce Oinochoe (“wine-pourer”)Frieze w. lions, panthers630-615 BCE Aryballos (“oil-jar”)Griffin600-575 BCE Olpe (“wine-flask”) Two friezes: panthers, griffins 610-600 BCE
Patronage: water Fountain of Peirene, 6th c. Black-Figure Hydria (“water pitcher”)520-510 BCE
Friday-Monday: Athens and the lawLaw code of Gortyn (Crete)ca. 500-450 BCE