ARCHAIC
GREECE 700-480 BC
OLIGARCHY
(basileis) REPLACES
MONARCHY (wanakes).
POLIS
(CITY-STATE). WEAKNESS OF STATE INSTITUTIONS. AGATHOI ("the good guys"), KAKOI ("the bad guys").
THEOGNIS, SOLON (6th c. BC). EGALITARIANISM. DEMOS "the people").
CAPITALISM AT SEA. COINAGE (LYDIA). HOPLITE WARFARE. PHALANX. TYRTAEUS (7TH
BC).
AGATHOI: SYMPOSIUM. ATHLETICS (OLYMPIC
GAMES, 776 BC). PINDAR (5TH BC). GYMNASIUM ("naked
place"). DYNASTIC MARRIAGE.
TYRANTS
(= Lydian "kings"): 7th/6th centuries BC.
PISISTRATUS (died 527 BC). TEMPLES, FESTIVALS. OSTRACISM (Athens)
THE
IONIAN ENLIGHTENMENT (6th BC). MILETUS. EASTERN HERITAGE. DISCOVERY
OF NATURAL CAUSE. THE PROBLEM OF CHANGE.
MONISTS:
THALES
(water)
ANAXIMANDER
(the Infinite; competition of opposites causes change; rings of fire)
ANAXIMENES
(air)
PYTHAGORAS
(number, musical harmony; divine spark, transmigration, vegetarianism,
utopianism)
.
. .
. . .
. . .
.
HERODOTUS
(5TH BC). HISTORIE = "INQUIRY". THE FIRST PROSE. HUMAN CAUSES
FOR HUMAN EVENTS WITHIN A MORAL UNIVERSE. THE MIDDLE WAY (Tellus The Athenian,
Cleobis and Biton)
ART
AND ARCHITECTURE
DAEDALIC
STYLE, 7TH C. BC. NAUCRATIS (670 BC).
KOUROS
(-OI, "young
man"), KORAI (-E, "young woman"), 6th c. BC
TEMPLE
CANON. IONIC AND DORIC ORDERS. METOPES. FRIEZE. PEDIMENT. ENTABLATURE.
CORINTHIAN.
THE
ORIENTALIZING STYLE (7-6TH CENTURIES BC). CORINTH.
PROTOATTIC
(7TH C. BC), BLACK FIGURE (6TH C. BC), RED FIGURE (5TH
C. BC). MYTH AND THE BIRTH OF THE NARRATIVE STYLE