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Aeschylus & Athens
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750--------- c. 725?Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days ARCHAIC 600’s?Homeric Hymns composed 508-7Cleisthenes reforms Athenian democracy 500--------- Hesiod’s Age of Iron
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Relatively weak city-states
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750--------- c. 725?Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days ARCHAIC 600’s?Homeric Hymns composed 508-7Cleisthenes reforms Athenian democracy 500--------- 490-80Greeks defeat two invasions by Persians 463-1Ephialtes and Pericles reform democracy 458Aeschylus wins first prize with Oresteia CLASSICAL 323---------
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490-80Greeks defeat two invasions by Persians 470’srise of Athenian naval power AEGEAN
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477Athens founds the Delian League Delos
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477Athens founds the Delian League 469Athens forces Naxos to remain in the League Naxos
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Eurymedon 477Athens founds the Delian League 469Athens forces Naxos to remain in the League 468Athens defeats the Persian navy at the Eurymedon River
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An Athenian Empire
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The Athenian Acropolis
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The “Periclean” building program
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Temple of Virgin Athena (“Parthenon”)
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Cult Statue of Virgin Athena (“Athena Parthenos”) NIKE
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Athens: A city reinventing itself
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463-61 Rise of Ephialtes and establishment of “Periclean democracy” court on the Areopagus (“Hill of Ares”) restricted to homicide cases all criminal cases decided by a randomly selected jury equal access to all political offices 458Aeschylus wins first prize with Oresteia
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retribution
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deliberation a new form of justice
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for Friday:Myth and Gender Re-READ: Hesiod, Theogony, lines 521-616 (“Pandora 1”) Hesiod, Works and Days, lines 1-106 (“Pandora 2”) Genesis 1-5 (“Adam and Eve”)
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for Friday:Myth and Gender Re-READ: Hesiod, Theogony, lines 521-616 (“Pandora 1”) Hesiod, Works and Days, lines 1-106 (“Pandora 2”) Genesis 1-5 (“Adam and Eve”) COMPARE what the THREE stories say:
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for Friday:Myth and Gender Re-READ: Hesiod, Theogony, lines 521-616 (“Pandora 1”) Hesiod, Works and Days, lines 1-106 (“Pandora 2”) Genesis 1-5 (“Adam and Eve”) COMPARE what the THREE stories say: WHY were women created?
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for Friday:Myth and Gender Re-READ: Hesiod, Theogony, lines 521-616 (“Pandora 1”) Hesiod, Works and Days, lines 1-106 (“Pandora 2”) Genesis 1-5 (“Adam and Eve”) COMPARE what the THREE stories say: WHY were women created? HOW are men and women different?
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