2. Life in the Archaic Age The Race of Iron and the Tyrants who Ruled Greece

3. What happens after Homer? “I wish I were not included among the fifth race of men, but rather had died before, or been born after it. This is the iron race” Hesiod, Works and Days 174-176 (700 BC)

4. Hesiod’s World Poetry after Homer “all the people look up to him as with fair justice he grants his verdict and with sure resolution and wisdom he brings a quick end to some great strife.” Theogony 81-96

5. The Lyric Poets Archilochus (680-640 BC) “I hate a tall captain, one who swaggers, and is smooth-shaven. Give me a stout and square man, set firmly on his legs, heart-full, not to be shaken from the spot he sets his feet.” “There are no privileged soldiers on the battlefield.”

6. The Lyric Poets, Part II Sappho of Lesbos (600 BC) “Some might say an army of horsemen, others of infantry, others of sea-vessels, is the most welcome sight on the dark earth, but I say it is whatever you love the most” “That man seems to me as strong as a god, that man who sits near you, and listens to your honeyed talk.

7. Archaic Age: 700-490 World In Decline Debt-Slavery Country to City

8. Colonization 700-500 BC New opportunity Economic Benefits Political Power

9. Age of Tyrants: 670-500 What is a tyrant? Revolution Polycrates

10. Hoplite Armies 650 BC Rise to Power Aid to Tyrants Fighting ranks

11. Beyond Borders... The Hellenes Panhellenism First Olympic Games 776 BC Homeric Poems 750 BC Common Religion

12. Summary Greece is poised on the brink of... The Persian Wars Athenian Democracy A Golden Age