Aeschylus & Athens
750 - - - - - - - - -
c. 725? Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days
ARCHAIC 600’s? Homeric Hymns composed
508-7 Cleisthenes reforms Athenian democracy
500 - - - - - - - - -
Hesiod’s Age of Iron
Relatively weak city-states
750 - - - - - - - - -
c. 725? Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days
ARCHAIC 600’s? Homeric Hymns composed
508-7 Cleisthenes reforms Athenian democracy
500 - - - - - - - - -
490-80 Greeks defeat two invasions by Persians
463-1 Ephialtes and Pericles reform democracy
458 Aeschylus wins first prize with Oresteia
CLASSICAL
323 - - - - - - - - -
490-80 Greeks defeat two invasions by Persians
470’s rise of Athenian naval power
AEGEAN
477 Athens founds the Delian League
Delos
477 Athens founds the Delian League
469 Athens forces Naxos to remain in the League
Naxos
Eurymedon
477 Athens founds the Delian League
469 Athens forces Naxos to remain in the League
468 Athens defeats the Persian navy at the Eurymedon River
An Athenian Empire
The Athenian Acropolis
The Athenian Acropolis
The “Periclean” building program
Temple of Virgin Athena (“Parthenon”)
Cult Statue of Virgin Athena
(“Athena Parthenos”)
NIKE
Athens: A city reinventing itself
463-61 Rise of Ephialtes and establishment of “Periclean democracy”
• court on the Areopagus (“Hill of Ares”)restricted to homicide cases
• all criminal cases decided by a randomly selected jury
• equal access to all political offices
458 Aeschylus wins first prize
with Oresteia
retribution
deliberation
a new form of justice
for Friday: Myth and Gender
Re-READ:Hesiod, Theogony, lines 521-616
(“Pandora 1”)Hesiod, Works and Days, lines 1-106
(“Pandora 2”)Genesis 1-5
(“Adam and Eve”)
for Friday: Myth and Gender
Re-READ:Hesiod, Theogony, lines 521-616
(“Pandora 1”)Hesiod, Works and Days, lines 1-106
(“Pandora 2”)Genesis 1-5
(“Adam and Eve”)
COMPARE what the THREE stories say:
for Friday: Myth and Gender
Re-READ:Hesiod, Theogony, lines 521-616
(“Pandora 1”)Hesiod, Works and Days, lines 1-106
(“Pandora 2”)Genesis 1-5
(“Adam and Eve”)
COMPARE what the THREE stories say:•WHY were women created?
for Friday: Myth and Gender
Re-READ:Hesiod, Theogony, lines 521-616
(“Pandora 1”)Hesiod, Works and Days, lines 1-106
(“Pandora 2”)Genesis 1-5
(“Adam and Eve”)
COMPARE what the THREE stories say:•WHY were women created?•HOW are men and women different?
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