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History of Western Civilisation - Wednesday 5th Period: Discussion 3: Greek Politics and War

All right, class. I've received a few death threats for the way I treated the Peloponnesian War in the last class... which is to say, I didn't. If you care... good for you. I don't.

So, now we're going to talk about Greek Politics and War. That is only slightly an oxymoron.

Your homework, due next Tuesday ~~but turned in to this post~~ is to give me at least one hundred words ~~craftily cut-and-pasted, possibly from here~~ on some aspect of Greek political life. Go.

[[OCD threads are up! Go ahead.]]

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Athens is credited with the first historical democracy in Western
Civilisation. By our lights it wasn't much of a democracy, given that
it excluded all but a fraction of the population. But it attempted
something that had not been done before; the idea of a major power
which was aggressvily empire-building being run by the will and
consent of the people it governed.

Success? Failure? Venerated all out of proportion to what it really was by the modern world?

The history of Greece is the history of various wars, intra- and extra-Greek. Until after they were defeated by Philip of Macedonia, they never considered banding into one cohesive unit. How has "war-like culture" and individuality pervaded our own culture?

Alexander the Great conquered the Persian Empire and spread Grecian influence as far east as modern day India. It also brought back knowledge of a wider world than their own. How did the concept of exchange with 'exotic' cultures affect Greece? How does it affect us?

Anything about Greek politics and/or war that you'd like.

Don't do it.

http://www.ancientgreece.com/

Talk to Prof. Pierson.

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