1. Archaic Greece II: The Hoplite, Tyrants and Intellectual Developments
CLAS/HIST3001
Archaic Greece II: The Hoplite, Tyrants and Intellectual Developments

2. Review Contrasting tendencies:
Wide adoption of magistracies, spreading power among a larger population
The role of the oikistes, 'founder'
Either through synoikismos or apoikia

3. Theognis' View from the Top
C21
What does he believe is the basis of a good polis?
What is corrupting it?
How does his view differ from Hesiod's?
How is it the same?

4. Hoplite Warfare 7th c. vase shows battle So named after hoplon, shield
Closely linked, like scales on fish

5. Hoplites and Society Heavily-armoured hoplite soldiers
Depends on portion of population able to buy armour and weapons
Cavalry become branch of army
How does Aristotle view this military change as a political one, too (C22)?

7. The Lyric Voice
“Well, some Thracian is enjoying the shield which I left – I
didn't want to and it was a perfectly good one – beside a bush.
But I saved myself. What do I care about that shield?
To hell with it; I'll get another just as good.” (Archilochus fr. 5, West trans. Pomeroy et al. p. 117)

8. Tyrannos Word drawn from Eastern powers, such as Lydians or Phrygians
First used of divinities, like Ares
Later means sole ruler without the backing of aristocratic tradition and not responsible to the people
Position through revolution, acclamation, ?election (C23)
Not a term, originally, connoting the nature of the rule
This is a Classical attitude (C25)

9. Tyrants and the Polis Promoted cultural developments of the day C29
Did not reject all political institutions, either

10. The Cypselid (Kypselid) Tyranny
What brought about Corinthian tyranny (the Cypselids)?
What, according to Herodotus' story, is its relationship with the aristocracy and the common people?
What do you think of the reliability of this source?

11. The Pisistratids of Athens
Began with rule of Pisistratus in 546 BC
Rule was benevolent and law-abiding
Much construction
Pisistratus dies 527, replaced by sons
One is killed in 514, the other exiled in 510

12. Discussion: “Hippocleides Doesn't Care”
What does Herodotus' description of the marriage contest for Agariste, daughter of Kleisthenes of Sikyon (C26), tell us about the connections between aristocrats and tyrants?
How are the Dark Age, or Homeric, values put to use in this new political context?

13. Apollo's Temple at Delphi
The 'omphalos'

14. Racecourse (Amphidrome)