CLAS 150: Week Four
Key Terms, Dates, Individuals
Thales Anaximander
Pythagoras
Archilochus
Alcaeus
Sappho
Solon
Cleisthenes
508 BC deme
ecclesia
boule
prytany
Darius Xerxes
Ionian rebellion (499-494 BC)
Miltiades Battle of Marathon (490 BC)
Themistocles Battle of Thermopylae
(480 BC) Battle of Salamis (480 BC)
Herodotus
Leonidas
Issues, Questions to Consider
- What types of literature were being written in the Archaic Age?
- What are some of the characteristics features of the poetry of
Archilochus? Sappho?
- What sorts of philosophical and scientific developments occurred in the
Archaic Age?
- What sorts of problems was Cleisthenes
faced with in 508 BC?
- What was his solution to these problems?
- What were the functions and powers of the
boule?
- What were the functions and powers of the
ecclesia?
- How would you evaluate Athenian democracy?
What were its strengths and weaknesses? Who did it work for?
Who didn't it work for?
- Be sure you are able to give at least a general outline of the
developments of the Persian Wars
- What was the impact in Greece of the battle of Marathon?
- What was the influence of Themistocles at Athens?
- What military strategy lay behind the battles at Thermopylae, Artemisium,
and Salamis?
- What sorts of things does Herodotus have to say about the battle at
Thermopylae?
- How would you evaluate the performance of the Greeks during the Persian
Wars? Any criticisms, surprises?
- What was the political and military environment in Greece like after the
conclusion of the Persian Wars?