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Next steps. Tonight, 6pm, Tower Penthouse 2/12, Friday: oligarchic coup, 411 last speeches 2/15, Monday: end of the war, 404/3 free-for-all Lecture: extra credit per faction in Blog 2/17, Wednesday: 30 tyrants, 403 free-for-all 2/19, Friday: trial of Socrates, 399
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Next steps • Tonight, 6pm, Tower Penthouse • 2/12, Friday: oligarchic coup, 411 • last speeches • 2/15, Monday: end of the war, 404/3 • free-for-all • Lecture: extra credit per faction in Blog • 2/17, Wednesday: 30 tyrants, 403 • free-for-all • 2/19, Friday: trial of Socrates, 399 • need 5 Athenian volunteers • kêrux (herald) to manage water-clock • 2 defenders of Socrates • 2 accusers of Socrates • 2/22, Monday: the future, post-399 • free-for-all • 2/24, Wednesday: 4th c. • 2/26, Friday: Philip II of Macedon • 3/1-3/10: Alexander the Great • 3/12, Friday: midterm Prof. Ruth Scodel, Univ. of Michigan, on “Mind-Reading in Homer” 2/15 Emerson, 5.30pm
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 Assembly officials Dionysodoros, Oligarch, eponymous archon Tory Bennett Kydimachos, Radical Democract, grammateus(secretary) Amanda Ostrove Braxyllos, Radical Democrat, kêrux(herald) Becca Gilligan Administrative officials Demokrites, Indeterminate, city managerJesse Adler Lysimachos, Moderate Democract, jailerErik Germani Theochares, Moderate Democrat, auditorAndy Nice Military officials Theophilos, Indeterminate, stratêgos(general)Lizzy Kennedy Chairimenes, Radical Democrat, stratêgos(general)Gwen Pryor Financial officials Gorgias, Indeterminate, treasurer (financial official) Adam Jaouad Hermon, Socratic, polêtês(financial official) Elyssa Schaeffer
Alcibiades son of Kleinias, cousin and ward of Pericles 415 BCE Profanation of Eleusinian Mysteries Mutilation of the Hermai Factionalism, 417/6 BCE: Athens holds an ostrakismos (“ostracism”): Alcibiades and Nicias combine forces temporarily to persuade the ekklesiato ostracize Hyperbolus and thus avoid their own ostracism Agora Museum in Athens: fragment of an ostrakon bearing the name [A]lkib[iades K]lini[ou]
Path of the Athenian armada to Sicily, 415 BCE Sicilian Sea Demarcation of Syracusan / Athenian spheres of influence
Issues to consider • What were the arguments made by Nicias and Alcibiades about launching the expedition? What were the complications involved in the expedition? • What mistakes did the Athenians make? What might they have done differently to succeed?
Spring 413: Sparta resumes the war, fortifies the Attic deme of Decelea and sends reinforcements to Sicily under Gylippus
Topic for debate What do we do now that the expedition has failed? do we sue for peace with Sparta or maintain the war? do we prosecute the survivors, especially when the leaders of the expedition (Nicias and Demosthenes in particular) have been killed? Stone quarry at Syracuse used to house the 7,000 captured Athenian hoplites, 413 BCE
Next steps • Tonight, 6pm, Tower Penthouse • 2/12, Friday: oligarchic coup, 411 • last speeches • 2/15, Monday: end of the war, 404/3 • free-for-all • Lecture: extra credit per faction in Blog • 2/17, Wednesday: 30 tyrants, 403 • free-for-all • 2/19, Friday: trial of Socrates, 399 • need 5 Athenian volunteers • kêrux (herald) to manage water-clock • 2 defenders of Socrates • 2 accusers of Socrates • 2/22, Monday: the future, post-399 • free-for-all • 2/24, Wednesday: 4th c. • 2/26, Friday: Philip II of Macedon • 3/1-3/10: Alexander the Great • 3/12, Friday: midterm Prof. Ruth Scodel, Univ. of Michigan, on “Mind-Reading in Homer” 2/15 Emerson, 5.30pm
Accusationγραφή (graphê) Ho diokon (ὁ διώκων)= “he who pursues” Prosecutor Ho pheugon (ὁ φεύγων)= “he who flees” Defendant