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Plutarch’s Life of Themistocles

Plutarch’s Life of Themistocles. Peitho in the Service of City and Self. Agenda. Oral Report (conclusion) Natham , Christina, Orin Recap and Update The Road to Democracy… Themistocles Son of Neocles Biographical Overview Themistocles for President! A Good Idea?.

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Plutarch’s Life of Themistocles

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  1. Plutarch’s Life of Themistocles Peithoin the Service of City and Self

  2. Agenda • Oral Report (conclusion) • Natham, Christina, Orin • Recap and Update • The Road to Democracy… • Themistocles Son of Neocles • Biographical Overview • Themistocles for President! • A Good Idea?

  3. Oral Report (conclusion) Natham, Christina, Orin

  4. Recap and Update The Road to Democracy…

  5. Historical Sketch Greece Athens ca. 620 Draco’s law code 594/3 Solon’s reforms 560-510 Peisistratean tyranny 507 Cleisthenic reforms • ca. 1200 BCE • Trojan War • ca. 800 • Emerging poleis

  6. 9-Oct Readings: Issues • Justice and the state • Stasis, eunomia • monarkhia, isonomia • Constitutional concerns • Democracy • Oligarchy • Tyranny • Questions of peitho • Monarchy • Charismatic democracy

  7. Athenian Democracy ca. 485 “The polis . . . Areopagus… . . . of the Athenians”

  8. Themistocles Son of Neocles Biographical Overview

  9. Biographical, Historical Info • ca. 528. Birth • 493/2. Archon • 490-479. Persian Wars • 482. Aristides ostracized • 480. Themistocles Strategos • ca. 472. T’s ostracism, condemnation • 462. Death in exile

  10. “It is said, in fact, that Themistocles was quite carried away by his yearning for fame and that his ambition to play a part in great events had become a passion with him.” (Plutarch Themistocles pp. 79-80 Penguin) legetai gar houtōparaphoros pros doxaneinaikaipraxeōnmegalōnhupophilotimiaserastēs.

  11. Themistocles for President! A Good Idea?

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