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To the Cave HUM 2051: Civilization I Fall 2012 Dr. Perdigao October 3-5, 2012

Fracturing Civilizations Mycenaean and Minoan civilizations ( BCE; BCE) Dark Age: BCE Persian Wars (490 BCE-479 BCE) Peloponnesian War ( BCE)

A Tale of Two City-States Development of the polis, city-state Some city-states with fewer than 5,000 male citizens; Athens, largest city- state, with 35,000-40,000 adult male citizens and total population of 350,000 (Perry 57) City-state began as religious institution like in Near East but then shifted away from a tribal-religious institution to a secular-rational institution, shift from myth to reason (Perry 57) Athenian democracy at height in 5 th century BCE Sparta and Athens as centers Sparta: on Peloponnesian peninsula; as armed camp, conquering neighboring regions; isolationism and stagnant cultural development (57) Sparta: leader of Peloponnesian League, alliance of southern Greek city- states (57)

To the polis Athens: unlike agricultural Sparta, near the coast, strong navy and commercial industry (Perry 57) Four stages of Greek city-states: rule by king (monarchy); rule by land- owning aristocrats (oligarchy); rule by one man who seized power (tyranny); rule by the people (democracy) (Perry 57) Oligarchy in 8 th century BCE Athens when aristocrats took power Solon, the Reformer ( BCE): 594 BCE, as chief executive, initiates transition into democracy, seeing problems with aristocratic power and threat of civil war; “rational approach” (59) De-emphasizing role of the gods; institutes Assembly, with all free men allowed to sit on Assembly, Council of Four Hundred (59) Cleisthenes’ democratic Athens, ostracism as safeguard against tyranny, singling out individuals who were threats to the state (60)

Conquest and Resistance Persian Wars: Ionian Greeks of Asia Minor revolt against Persia; Athens sends twenty ships to aid revolt (Perry 60) 490 BCE, Darius I, king of Persia, in retaliation, sends detachment to Attica; at Marathon, Athenians defeat Persians (Perry 60) 10 years later, Xerxes, Darius’ son, sends force of 250,000 men and over 500 ships, to invade Greece (60) Unification of Greek city-states in defense of independence and liberty (60) Athens and Sparta united

Conquest and Resistance Thermopylae=300, 300 Spartans with training and “ideal of arêté” resist (Perry 61) Northern Greece fell to the Persians now moving south to Athens (61) Themistocles, Athenian statesman and general, lures Persian fleet to Bay of Salamis, then they again defeat Persians at Plataea; military strategy results in Athenian naval victory (Perry 61) 479 BCE: Spartans defeat Persians in land battle of Plataea (61) Leads to era of Athenian imperialism, “Golden Age,” Athenian urge for dominance in Greece (Perry 61) 150 city-states organized Delian League, named after treasury on island of Delos, to protect themselves against Persian invasion, centralized Athenian power (61)

Conquest and Resistance Flourishing of Athenian democracy and culture (Perry 61) Assembly open to all adult male citizens; debate and vote on war, treaties, spending (61) Isonomy—equality of political rights of citizens—to vote, to speak before and submit motions to Assembly, hold public office, receive equal treatment (62) Council of Five Hundred managed ports, military installations, state properties, and prepared the agenda for the Assembly (62) Members chosen by lot; individuals could not serve more than twice in a lifetime, could never supersede the Assembly Limitations and weaknesses of democratic system: slaves and women denied legal and political rights; denial of “human rights” epitomized in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Perry 63)

Contextualizing Aristophanes and Plato Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta ( BCE; temporary peace from BCE) ends the Golden Age Pericles—Athens ( BCE), reforms during the Golden Age, court system (Perry 65) Pericles’ oration reconstructed by Thucydides to commemorate the Athenian war casualties at the start of the war, reveals “Athenian democratic ideal,” “civic and personal freedom” (Perry 65)—distinction between Spartans’ “concept of excellence” with the Athenians’ “humanistic ideal of the full development of the human personality” (65) Fear of growth of Athenian power, failed peace treaty negotiated by Pericles, plague in Athens (430 BCE), death of Pericles Athenian sea power leads to first stage ends in stalemate, peace treaty in 421 BCE (65) Athenian expedition against Sicily and largest city Syracuse (65), desire to extend empire west, reignites war; Athens loses 50,000 men and 200 ships; Sparta resumes attack in 414 BCE, now backed by Persia

Contextualizing Aristophanes and Plato Athens surrenders as navy and food supply lost 404 BCE Sparta dissolves Delian League Shatters Hellenic society (66), strife between oligarchs and democrats 411 BCE, Four Hundred take power over Athens but ultimately forced out (67) Thirty Tyrants ( BCE) led by Critias, antidemocrat, take power, supported by Sparta; confiscate property, condemn people to death BCE, returned exiles lead uprising, unseat the Thirty (67) Peloponnesian War as great crisis; city-states never recovered (67) Shift from sense of civic duty to personal gain, dismantling of polis upheld by Pericles (67); move to larger states and empires (68) City-states, in unity, had conquered Persian threat but are destroyed in Peloponnesian War

Contextualizing Aristophanes Hubris as downfall for the city-states, ideas of conquest (Perry 70) Idea of institutions as human-made, constructs, rather than decreed by gods, shift in ideas about civic duty; rationalism’s effects (70) Sophists, according to Socrates, “attacked the old system of beliefs but had not provided the individual with a satisfactory replacement” (79)

Herodotus ( BCE), Thucydides ( BCE)—as key historians, establishing “Western civilization’s tradition of history writing”; Herodotus as “father of history” (Perry 95) Herodotus’ Histories representing Persian Wars (clash between cultures of the East and West) (420 BCE); Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War counters Herodotus’ approach to look at power politics operating in history, “no place for myths, for legends, for the fabulous,” “rejecting the notion that the gods interfere in history” (Perry 96) Idea of cause-and-effect, analysis of historical contexts, self- consciousness Man’s “will to power and domination” as cause (96) Constructing History

Some Forms Sophists—“men of wisdom,” teaching from city to city rhetoric, grammar, poetry, gymnastics, mathematics, and music; political and ethical concerns, secular education; teaching “political arêté,” “the skill to formulate the right laws and policies for cities and the art of eloquence and persuasion needed for success in public life” (78) Socrates ( BCE) Socratic thought as counter to system Aristophanes—critic of both Socrates and Sophists Socrates—born about 10 years after Persian Wars, executed 5 years after the end of the Peloponnesian War (Perry 79) Plato ( BCE): astronomy, mathematics, political philosophy, metaphysics, ethics Forms/Ideas vs. relativism of Sophists Plato—founded the Academy, history of philosophical tradition—in dialogue/dialectic model

The Charges Thirty Tyrants Persecution and execution of Socrates because of his follower Critias (one of Thirty’s leaders) Impiety 501 male citizens Death vs. exile

The Stance Apology as defense: “So, men of Athens, I’m far from pleading in my own defense now, as might be supposed. Instead, I’m pleading in yours, so that you don’t commit a great wrong against the god’s gift to you by condemning me” (770) Gadfly that “awakens, cajoles, and reproaches” (770) Achilles’ example (768): “You see, fearing death, gentlemen, is nothing other than thinking one is wise when one isn’t, since it’s thinking one knows what one doesn’t know” (769). “it’s the greatest good for a man to discuss virtues every day... on the grounds that the unexamined life isn’t worth living for a human being” (776). Orpheus, Homer, Ajax, Odysseus, Sisyphus—following those examples, like Odysseus

Republic as “true apology” From Alan Bloom’s “Interpretive Essay”: “The Republic shows us why Socrates was accused and why there was good reason to accuse him. Not only does he tell us about the good regime, but we see his effect on the young men he was said to have corrupted. Socrates, in leading them to a justice which is not Athenian, or even Greek, but is rather human, precisely because it is rational, shows the way to the truth about political things and develops the extremely complex relationship of that truth to civil society. These questions are most relevant to modern man, although they are perhaps harder for him to understand than for men of any previous generation.... For these reasons it behooves us to study the Republic. For it is the first book which brings philosophy ‘down into the cities’; and we watch in it the foundation of political science, the only discipline which can bring the blessings of reason to the city” (310).

Paradoxical Understandings Rise to epistemology (how we know what we know) Meno’s paradox: if you know, then why ask questions but how do you know to ask questions if you do not know? Translation: You need to know what you are looking for to find it and, if you don’t know what you are looking for, there is no need to search for it. So how do we come to know anything? Function of justice, based on rules and fear Glaucon (Plato’s brother), Adaimantus (Plato’s brother) Glaucon’s social contract: desire to do unjust things but fear others will do injustice—we act just through fear; problem with democracy

The Just City Laws are lies, only the appearance of justice City of speech—goal to tell beneficial lies; gold, silver, bronze races lead to classes; if we come from the earth, then we are more loyal to earth and city Virtues in The Republic : –Wisdom (rulers know good for city and act in those interests) –Courage (guardians do what they must) –Moderation (all groups in city, their relationships; agreement of ruler and those to be ruled, in natural harmony—craftsman is ruler of the shoe, knowledge=what everyone strives to rule) –Justice (be just, then moderation will flow from it)

Hierarchy of the City, the Self Philosopher knows self but lies to others Aristophanes’ Clouds shows Socrates worshipping them but clouds side with gods, teach him how to be politically savvy Sun=nature; Good=light of the sun Rulers: Reason Guardians: Thumos Craftsmen: Eros Question if philosophers corrupt the city, intelligence for selves or others— for sake of city

Divisions Sun is truth and reality Divided line—Sun: light and power of the sun/world of sight and things seen From belief to knowledge: images: objects: thought-images: ideas or ideals belief: mathematical thought: dialectical thought the changing world of the senses: understanding: exercise of reason Ideal is in the realm of Good—the Real (in The Allegory of the Cave): –Come to know ideals and act accordingly in the world –As pure concept, compared to imitations –Literature as second order imitation