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Title: Beginnings


1
Beginnings
  • How to decode a book
  • Preliminary information
  • Structure
  • Audience
  • Key terms
  • demokratia (AGD 1) demos (AGD 3) kratos
  • polis (AGD 2)
  • popular assembly (ekklesia)
  • representative council (boule)
  • popular courts (dikasterion, pl. dikasteria)
  • magistrates/officials
  • ostracism
  • Views of democracy from Socrates Plato to 1846
  • A sampling of English-language works (AGD pp.
    4-5)

2
Preliminaries
  • Map of Mediterranean basin
  • Bronze Age Greece (ca. 2000-1200 BCE)
  • The role of archaeology Heinrich Schliemann and
    Sir Arthur Evans
  • Mask of Agamemnon
  • Collapse of Bronze Age ca. 1200 BCE
  • Trojan War ca. 1200 BCE?
  • Dark age ca. 1200-800 BCE
  • Homeric Age ca. 800-700 BCE

3
The Homeric age cultural values
  • What are the principal cultural values among the
    Achaians ( Greeks) at Troy, in Ithaca, and in
    Hesiods world?
  • Group 1 Homer Iliad 1.1-305 (AGD pp. 8-15)
  • Group 2 Homer Iliad 2.1-282 (AGD pp. 15-21)
  • Group 3 Homer Odyssey 2.1-259 (AGD pp. 15-21)
  • Group 4 Hesiod Theogony ll. 8-97 Works and Days
    ll. 213-269 (AGD pp. 26-27)

4
The Homeric age cultural values
  • Agon aggressive self-assertive competition.
    Where did this occur?
  • Reciprocity how does one show philia
    (hospitality)? Help ones philoi (friends)
    and harm ones exhthroi (enemies)
  • Saving face how did the Greeks save face?
  • Time (honor, value) aidos (shame) ?

5
Time and Aidos
  • How, and where, did the Greeks demonstrate time?
  • Was this a public or private value, and why?
  • How, and where, did the Greeks demonstrate aidos?
  • Was this a public or private value, and why?

6
Political action and thought
  • What kinds of political (city-state) activity can you detect in your
    passage(s)?
  • For example, how do the various segments of
    Homeric society interact? Are there rules for
    interaction?
  • Are the Greeks or is Homer conscious of
    political interaction?
  • Are there models of social behavior? Are there
    causes, and consequences, for certain behaviors
    or (inter)actions?

7
For Friday
  • What are Raaflaubs main arguments in favor of
    Homeric political thought?
  • Does Edmunds support or refute Raaflaubs
    position?
  • Does Morris support or refute Raaflaubs
    position?
  • What is the evidence each employs to do so?
  • Groups 1, 2 present and critique Raaflaubs and
    Edmunds positions
  • Groups 3, 4 present and critique Morris
    position

8
Other beginnings
  • How are you coping with the first week?
  • What are the challenges youve faced, and what
    strategies have worked?
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