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CLAS/HIST1631

The City-State and Athletics. CLAS/HIST1631. The City-State. Sovereign city, growing out of conflict we found in Theognis and Hesiod: Magistrates Assemblies Courts and other dispute-settling mechanisms Had its own foreign policy, money, etc. Aristotle's Definition of a Human.

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CLAS/HIST1631

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  1. The City-State and Athletics CLAS/HIST1631

  2. The City-State • Sovereign city, growing out of conflict we found in Theognis and Hesiod: • Magistrates • Assemblies • Courts and other dispute-settling mechanisms • Had its own foreign policy, money, etc.

  3. Aristotle's Definition of a Human • “Humans are political animals”

  4. Diversity Among Poleis • In different locales • Some bilingual or bicultural • Inland states • Sea-based economies • Constantly at war over minor territorial issues and other disputes

  5. What United Them: I. Language • Dialectical differences did not overwhelm ability to communicate

  6. What United Them: II. Homer • Homer was like their 'Bible' in some ways • The common cultural reference of Greeks everywhere

  7. What United Them: III Religion • Local variation in deities did not mean competing loyalty • Practice of religion was roughly the same from place to place

  8. Religious Centres • Delphi, most important of all

  9. What United Them IV. Athletics

  10. Plan of Olympia

  11. Olympic Time • Universal event gives universal means of measuring time: • “In the year of the Olympic games when Coroebus of Elis was crowned for the 200m dash” • Reduces to our 776 BC • This is our first known date from ancient Greece • Every 4 years, so you can say 'the second year of the Olympiad when ....”

  12. What Sorts of Competitions? • List is on GP 64-65 • Why was the Mulecart Race included in 500 BC and dropped in 444 BC? • Why was the Race for Mares included in 496 BC and dropped in 444 BC?

  13. The Greeks and the Games • The paradox of competition • Even more true for the Greeks: • Funeral Games • Competition in the back of the beyond

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