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Notes on video lecture:
Peisistratos: Tyranny and Civic Identity
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on April 3, 2015 (go to class or lectures)
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Solon's                addressed issues of his time
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political problems
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social problems
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allowed for more                 
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but didn't undermine the underlying qualities in                  society
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after Solon's reforms, continuing tension and trouble
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590 BC, a year without an             
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similar to year 404 with the year of the              Tyrants
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one archon stayed in office for two years even though he was only elected for one
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probably wanted to make himself tyrant
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Sparta
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in South, had tried to expand
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had conquered                 
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undertook a campaign against            [TEE-gee-ah]
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didn't work
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formed alliances with Tegea
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then other states
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an informal Peloponnesian League coming together
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Athens
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brief experiment with a board of                   
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replaced the archons
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quickly abandoned
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but a sign of upheavel
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regional factions
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the coast
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led by Lykourgos
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merchants
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the plains
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Megakles
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over the hill
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Peisistratos [pigh-SIS-trah-tus]
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Peisistratos
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had already made a name of himself
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participated in war of             
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clearly had ambitions to rule Athens
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made three attempts to establish himself as             
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1. wounded himself and came into the            and asked for a civic grant of armed guards, assembly gave it to him
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Solon who was old put his            outside his house indicating that he would not take part
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Solonian poem talks about a          man who will deceive the minds of the people, may be Peisistratos
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alliance of other two big men drove him out
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2. married Megakles'                 
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Herodotus tells us
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dressed her up as Athena
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Athenians feel for this
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he was staging a pageant
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something for the                    of his fellow citizens, political theater
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marriage was not successful
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3. went north to             , got into gold mines, returned to Athens with a mercenary force
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landed at                 
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skirmish
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established his rule quickly
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with little                 
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levied small tax on produce
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started set of              works
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water fountains
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circuit judges, who went out into the countryside to hear cases
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cleared the            of private dwellings
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made it public
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major public construction
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massive temple of Zeus                 
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next to the Acropolis
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civic religions
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especially            honoring Athena
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                       games
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vases which held olive oil
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patron goddess Athena
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chariot race
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tragic and comic festivals in honor of                 
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competition of choruses
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Athenian first coinage
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Athena
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owl
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died in 528
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ambitious, ethical,                ruler
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of peaceful old age
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never had to use a                   
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this showed he was               
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Athens began growing during his rule
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kouros statues [KUR-ohs]
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represented male youths
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were represented as nude, unlike the                  models
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striding with one foot forward
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characteristic markers of the elite
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one had an inscription
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stop and mourn beside the memorial of dead               , whom fierce Ares cut down in the front ank of battle

Vocabulary:

kouros, n. [KUR-ohs] free-standing ancient Greek sculptures which first appear in the Archaic period in Greece and represent nude male youths ⇒ "A direct influence between Egyptian statues, in particular the figure of Horus, and the kouros type has long been conjectured, not least because of trade and cultural relations that are known to have existed since the mid-seventh century BCE."

Spelling Corrections:

Pelopolysian ⇒ Peloponnesian
upheavel ⇒ upheaval

Flashcards:

ruler who tried to become tyrannt three times, 527 BC
Peisistratos [pie-SIS-trah-tus]
free-standing ancient Greek sculptures which first appear in the Archaic period in Greece and represent nude male youths
kouros [KUR-ohs]
the king of Lydia from 560 to 547 BC until his defeat by the Persians, renowned for his wealth
Croesus [KREE-sus]
Hesiod's Creation Myth: Theogony
The Spartan Way of Life
600 BC Tyrants and Sages: Cypselus and Periander
800-700 BC: Athens Before Solon
Solon Against Political, Economic, and Moral Decline
Peisistratos: Tyranny and Civic Identity
The End of Athenian Tyranny and the Democratic Revolution
508 BC: The Democratic Reforms of Cleisthenes
Herodotus and The Histories
The First Persian War and the Battle of Marathon
Themistocles, Silver, and Greek Naval Policy
Xerxes and the Second Invasion of Greece
The Delian League
From Delian League to Athenian Empire
Pericles: Aristocrat, Orator and Democratic Citizen
Sophocles' Antigone: Tragedy and Athenian Civic Life