A word about delivery. Most slides show for 3.5 seconds with minimum explanation. Purpose? To pique curiosity. The "Points to look for in this session" slide is repeated every 15 slides (not shown here). Bullets are delivered serially, with time for thought between each. The intro is played for 20 or so minutes before class to encourage coming early!

1. Ancient Greece
session v - The Great Wars

2. course outline
i - Origins
ii - Polis
iii - Colonies & Tyrants
iv - Sparta & Athens
v - Great Wars, 490-404
vi - Golden Age
vii - Second Military Revolution
viii - Hellenism

3. Major Points in the last Session
the central purpose of the Spartan state was preparing for
and waging war
Lycurgus, real or mythical, was credited with founding Sparta’s
“way of war”
the agoge was the system of training warriors, ages 7-20
the Spartan state undermined families
Athenian education was excellent for those who could afford it
Athenian social divisions determined political participation
Athenian democracy developed over time
Peisistratos’ tyranny, ironically, promoted democracy!

4. Questions to answer in this session
how do the Persian Wars begin? What is their significance?
what is special about the battle of Salamis?
what was the struggle for hegemony?
how does Thucydides explain the outbreak of the
Peloponnesian War?
why was the Sicilian expedition such a disaster?
how did Athens manage to stay in the war after 413?
why did she finally lose?

5. review of the previous
sessions

8. Heinrich
Schliemann

9. Mycenae--the lion’s gate

10. the “mask of Agamemnon”

11. Homer

12. “Jupiter and Thetis”
Jean Dominique Ingres

13. Odysseus

14. sessions remaining
vi - Golden Age
vii - Second Military Revolution
viii - Hellenism

15. Troy

17. Linear B

18. proto-Greek in
a Phoenician alphabet

22. Η Δικαιοσὖνη
Τό τί;
“[the] Justice.
“What [is] it?”
Plato, Republic

23. [The Athenian] Acropolis, Leo von Klenze

27. “FROGS AROUND A
POND” -- SOCRATES, IN THE PHAEDO

28. Victor Davis Hanson
(1953-)

29. hoplite kleros

30. a master, two
slaves and a
boy work
together harvesting
olives

32. transport amphora serving amphora

33. the Chigi vase, 4th c. BC

40. ΠΙΘΕΚΥΣΑΙ
Pithecusai-the first apoikia

41. Corinthian trade goods

43. Black Sea
Europe
Bosphorus
Sea of Marmara
Aegean
Sea
Dardanelles
Asia

58. Mount Taygetus
Sparta

60. Perioikoi

62. Lykourgos

67. ἢ τὰν ἢ ἐπὶ τᾶς
(eh tan eh epi tas)

75. SOLŌN

76. The Pottery
“factory”

77. State promotion
of the
fine arts,
here a sculpture
of Aphrodite
for a temple

78. mid 6th
century
factions

79. PEISISTRATOS

80. Harmodius and Aristogeton, the tyrannicides, kill Hipparchos
in 514 BC but fail to kill his brother, the tyrant Hippias

81. Cleisthenes

83. Ostrakon

84. The Alcmaeonidai

85. PERICLES

86. preview of today’s session

87. War is the father of all things--Heraclitus

88. THE GREATEST EMPIRE THE WORLD
HAD EVER SEEN UP TO THAT TIME

89. Herodotus
the
father
of
history

90. Μιλτιάδης ὁ Νεώτερος
Miltiades the Younger
c. 550 BCE – 489 BCE

95. “Photoshop” of the Persian ships
at the Bay of Marathon

96. the Persian
“Immortals”
at the Louvre

97. Miltiades’ helmet as
a votive offering

113. the
island
of
Thasos

117. ancient
Corcyra

121. Sparta’s
humiliation
at
Sphacteria

127. Alcibiades
c. 450-404

128. his rakish youth

131. Alcibiades’victory at Cyzicus, 410

132. Finale