Meet the Ancients: Key Terms + Concepts Pt.3

THE CLASSICAL AGE (490-338 BCE)

* Persian Wars
* Ends w/ philps + alexander

ATHENS

- Owned by Athena (Olive Branch)

SOLON

* Lawgiver
* Poet
* Outlaws debt slavery
* Helps Athens
* Allows all athenian citizens to vote

BOULE

* Council
* 400-500 men
* Chosen by lot from each tribe
* One year term

AUTOCHTONY

- Belief that Athenians sprang from the ground

HIPPIAS

* Peisistratus eldest son
* Brother: Hipparchus

HARMODIUS

* Boyfriend: Aristogeiton
* Rejects Hipparchus
* Plots tyrannicide w/ bf
* Hippias lives but brother dies + later gets expelled by Sparta

MURDER OF ERATOSTHENES

* Euphiletos kills Eratosthenes for sleeping w/ his wife
* Defense is that a husbad can kill an adulterer when caught in the act
* Unknown if he was proven guilty or not guilty

KURIOS

Lord

INHERITANCE

* Goes to the sons, if no sons the daughter must marry a relative and their children will inherit
* Can divorce only if childless

SPARTIATES

Full citizen of Sparta

LYCURGUS THE LAWGIVER

* Possibly not real
* No written evidence of his laws

MIRAGE

- Affects: poleis, later ancient people, pop culture, etc.

SPARTA

A city-state in ancient Greece.

INFANTICIDE

- Killing your offspring with intention

AGOGE

* Mass public education
* Keeps boys in line w/ violence (died sometimes)

SPARTIATE WOMEN

* Education: at home
* Managed households
* can own property
* Dont need labor

HELOTS

* Public slaves who farm a kleros for its Spartiate owner
* In war, they carry all equipment, fight under Spaertiate officers

SPARTAN GOV

- Has a little bit of every government archetype

GEROUSIA

* Old men past 60 years old
* Translation: senate
* Lifetime appointment

KINGS

* Two spartan kings
* One always stays in Sparta

FOREIGN POLICY

* Fight as hoplites in war
* First expansionist, later and Alliance system