Freedom & Despotism
Dolce et decorum est pro patria mori
molon labe - "come and get them"
Leonidas, king of Sparta (r. ca. 489-480 B.C.)
300
Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.)
Greek Periodization
| 2000 | - | 1380 | Minoan Civilization (Crete) |
| 1600 | - | 1200 | Mycenean Civilization |
| 1200 | - | 700 | Greek Dark Ages |
| 700 | - | 479 | Archaic Greece |
| 480 | - | 338 | Classical Greece |
| post | - | 338 | Hellenistic Greece |
ca. 1500 eruption of Thera (Knossos destroyed, rebuilt)
ca. 1380 Mycenean conquest of Crete, eastern Mediterranean
ca. 1200 Trojan War
ca. 750 Homer
480-79 Persian invasion
Alexander the Great (r. 336 - 323 B.C.)
Archaic Greece
agriculture
autarkeia - self-sufficiency
Homer, Odyssey, 24.225-433
Laertes
Dolios
Warfare
bronze age - cavalry, chariot
archaic, classical Greece = infantry
hoplites < hoplon (a shield) = "heavily armed infantry"
phalanx
casualties
Classical Greece
Persian Wars
Darius I
Lydia |
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| 494 | Melitus |
| 490 | Eretria Marathon Pheidippides (envoy to Sparta) |
| 480 | Thermopylae |
| 479 | Salamis |
Greek Art
commissioned, patron / client
Acropolis
Parthenon (Temple of Athena "parthenos")
idealization
Aphrodite/Venus