Rowdies, Rogues, and Robbers (Kebric, Ch 7, Pomeroy, 235-238, class notes)
- Intro to the Law courts at Athens
- Who could propose laws, where were they located?
- Public/Private Trials:
- Distinction between "private" and "public" cases?
- Jurors: who were they, how much were they paid, how did they vote, 201 & 401 were for? 501 and larger for?
- What is a water clock and how was it used?
- What were the steps and their corresponding procedures of a case prior to the case coming before a jury?
- Procedures prior to the trial?
- Procedures of the trial itself (including the verdict stage)?
- Types of evidence acceptable? Restrictions on slave testimony? Restrictions on female testimony?
- Terms: prosklesis, graphe & antigraphe, dike & antedike, anakrisis, atimia
- Murder trials:
- Trials conducted at Delphinium because?
- Trials conducted at Palladium because?
- Trials conducted by Archon Basileus & heads of 4 tribes because?
- Ephetai
- different from non-murder trials (open air, oaths, jurors, before the trial)
- 5 cases discussed by Kebric
- know the basic plots of all
- People:
- Eratothenes, Euphiletus & family, former mistress
- Ariston, Conon, Conon's sons
- Philoneos, his concubine, his friend, his friend's wife & sons
- Diodotus, Diogeiton, Diogeiton's grandsons/nephews, Diogeiton's daughter/Diodotus' widow, Phaedrus
- Phormio, Chrysippus, Lampis
The Apology of Plato (427-348 B.C.); Socrates (469-399 B.C.)
- Consider the manner in which Socrates (according to Plato) defended himself.
- What were the various charges?
- In particular, what were the slanderous charges (p.20) and
- what were the actual charges lodged against Socrates (p. 25)?
- Who were the accusers?
- Which charges is Socrates most concerned with?
- Who was Chaerephon and how did he set Socrates on his mission in life?
- In what way was Socrates the wisest?
- What was Socrates' daimon (i.e. "familiar oracle within me" in 3rd speech on p 39) and how did it function somewhat like our conscience?
- How was Socrates' arete similar to yet quite different from that of the Homeric heroes (or Olympic victors)?
- In what way was Socrates the gadfly of Athens?
- After being convicted what penalty did Socrates propose himself?
- Why did Socrates not go into exile?
- Why did Socrates not fear death?
- How can Socrates be described as a martyr?
Philip II (382-336) & the Rise of Macedon (Pomeroy, Ch 10)
- Were the Macedonians Greek? Modern answer/ancient Greek answer
- Some ways the Macedonians were different--(how like Dark Age/Homeric Greeks?)
- Predecessors to Philip II: Amyntas I & Persia; Alexander I & Olympics; Archelaus & poets
- Why was his stay in Thebes in 367-365 as a hostage important?
- How did he change the Macedonian military?
- Athens & Philip:
- Why was Athens at odds with Philip?
- Effects of Theoric Fund at Athens;
- effects of Peace of Philocrates;
- Battle of Chaeronea—treatment of Thebes vs Athens
- What were the two main aims of the League of Corinth? How did he die?
Alexander III (the Great) (356-323) (Pomeroy, Ch 11)
- What did Alexander inherit at age 20 with his ascension to the throne?
- How did Alexander consolidate his power?
- Invasion of Asia: Theatrics? Granicus? Issus? Darius III? March along the coast?
- What did he learn in Egypt from Zeus Ammon? Significance?
- Offer of Darius III? Battle of Gaugamela
- What other areas did Alexander conquer?
- Alexander's new approach & tension with army
- Why did he finally turn back?
- What did he die of?
- What were his political and cultural visions for his empire?
- How did he promote Hellenism?
Movie
- Know the plot and the themes of honor, fame, greed, love, expediency (results vs honor)
- Characters: Agamemnon, Menelaus, Helen, Odysseus, Ajax, Achilles, Patroclus, Hector, Paris, Priam, Andromache, Briseis, Trojan priest/prophet
Possible Essay Questions:
Reminder: if you did paper 6, you must write on something different for this essay
- The Voice, ancient Greek style: We saw, at the beginning of the semester, that individuals strove to become famous (kleos), through song, because of their accomplishments (acquired honor). Based on their "acquired honor" and choosing one from each group, argue which one would win and which would lose. Choose from
- Phillip II (Pomeroy's text), Alexander the Great (Pomeroy's text) or Socrates (the Apology and Pomeroy's text)
- Achilles (movie), Agamemnon (movie), or Odysseus (movie)
- Love: Hector and Socrates seem to be motivated by love of their country. Discuss. Use only the movie and the Apology as evidence
- Speech: We have seen that Socrates' trial was a public case and subject to the rules of such. If it had been a private case, then Socrates' accusers would have been allowed a short amount of time to reply to his defense. Using The Apology, pp. 19-36 (Socrates' initial speech), determine what the accusers' would probably have said in reply to Socrates' defense.
- Women: Theorcritus' Idyll 15 presents us with two "average" Greek women in Hellenistic Egypt who are going to a religious festival [see pdf in Moodle for Theocritus]. Compare and contrast these two women with the women in the three stories in Kebric [Eratosthenes (202-208), A Poisonous Stepmother? (212-214), and Diogeiton (214-217)] and/or the "average" women as presented in the movie.
- Time Travel Summer Program: You work for Westminster College 100 years in the future when time travel is a reality (but it can't change the past). Two professors want to take a group of students to the times and places studied in a typical Greek Civilization course after the end of the Peloponnesian War and prior to the Roman conquest of the Greek world. The "summer" course (i.e. summer in the future, not necessarily in the past) will last approximately three weeks (some things in the future are still the same!). You work for the publications department and are entrusted with providing a brief write-up of what the trip would entail. Your write up need to both focus on the positive but also be honest about the challenges of visiting that time period. The professors want you to include:
- something about one of the following topics:
- How the Athenian court system works (class notes)
- A day watching private court cases (2 court cases from Kebric's chapter 7--exclude ones you covered in Paper 4 or 6 if you did them for paper 4 or 6)
- a day watching a public court case (Plato's Apology--exclude if you covered this in Paper 5 or 6)
- field trip: observe the events of the movie
- something about one of the following topics:
- visual arts the Hellenistic Age (Pomeroy, Ch 12)
- field trip: observe Philip II's rise to power (Pomeroy, Ch 10)
- field trip to 1-2 battles that Alexander fought (Pomeroy Ch 11, include why they are important)
- daily life of women (use Theocritus' pdf, Document 12.2 in Pomeroy, 346-347, and Kebric, Chapter 7)
- Greek scientific advances (Kebric, 239-241, 243, 264; Pomeroy 353-355)
