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Archaic Greece 776-490 BC. Alphabet Shift from geometric to oriental in pottery City-state - polis Colonization Hoplite warfare Tyranny and class struggle. Dipylon Vase 740 BC. Corinthian style: oriental. oenochoe. Polis: Attica Astu (city) and chora (countryside) Synoecism
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Archaic Greece 776-490 BC • Alphabet • Shift from geometric to oriental in pottery • City-state - polis • Colonization • Hoplite warfare • Tyranny and class struggle
Corinthian style: oriental oenochoe
Polis: Attica Astu (city) and chora (countryside) Synoecism Basileus and archon Assembly Rise of aristocracy
Class struggle • Aristocracy: hoi agathoi • Thetes; mortgages • Tyranny and resistance to aristocrats
Thucydides • History of Peloponnesian War (431-404) • Greatest war • Reconstructive anthropology • Trojan war; Persian invasion; tyranny
Hesiod: Works and Days • Ascra, Boeotia • Didactic poetry • Near Eastern wisdom literature