Archaic Greece BC Alphabet Shift from geometric to oriental in pottery City-state - polis Colonization Hoplite warfare Tyranny and class struggle
Linear B - Mycenaean Greek alphabetic: law code of Gortyn; boustrophedon
Dipylon Vase 740 BC
Corinthian style: oriental c. 650 BC Oenochoe BC
Polis: Attica Astu (city) and chora (countryside) Synoecism Basileus and archon Assembly Rise of aristocracy
Greek Colonization: metropolis; oikistes;
Hoplite, from 675 BC; armor; phalanx
Marble and Messages at Ephesus Barbara Burrell, Cincinnati Thursday Jan. 28, pm; Eugene Public Library
Class struggle Aristocracy: hoi agathoi; kalokagathia –isonomia Hoi kakoi Thetes; mortgages Tyranny and resistance to aristocrats
Thucydides History of Peloponnesian War ( ) Greatest war Reconstructive anthropology Trojan war; Persian invasion; tyranny
Hesiod: Works and Days Ascra, Boeotia Didactic poetry Near Eastern wisdom literature