DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS: AEGEAN AND MEDITERRANEAN

Themes

• governance:
• two examples: the democratic city-state in Greece; the republican empire of Rome
• relevance:
• What is democracy and what does it mean to us?

Democratic City-States in the Aegean

Environment

• sea ____________, mountains ___________
• Hellas =

Development

• Minoans c 2200-1100 B.C.E. and Myceneans c.1600-1100 B.C.E.
• classical Greek polis 800-338 B.C.E.
  • Persian Wars c. 500-479 B.C.E.
  • Pericles leadership 443-429
  • Peloponnesian Wars 431-404
• Hellenistic world (Alexander) c. 323-100 B.C.E.

Culture

• polis=
  • hoplite [Alt hoplite]
  • Athens Plan [Alt Athens plan]
• colonization: Temple of Athena Nike [ Alt Temple of Athena Nike]
• governance:
• Sparta vs Athens
  • helots and Lycurgus
  • Areopagus, Draco, Solon, Clisthenes
• warfare: Persian Wars (560-479) vs Peloponnesian Wars (431-404)

Athenian Worldview: democracy for whom?

• wives and prostitutes
  • mother and children
  • story of Neaira
• imperialism: Thucydides, Pericles' Funeral Oration vs the Melian Dialogue
• democracy as a regional phenomenon

Roman Republic and Imperial Expansion

Environment

• mediterranean, Tiber river, Alps
• geographic expansion

Development: Pax Romana

• 753 B.C.E. Ab Urbe Condita (Etruscans)
• 509 Republic
• 264-146 B.C.E. expansion into Mediterranean basin
• 1st cen B.C.E. civil war
• 31 B.C.E. creation of Empire

Culture

• Republican reality:
• society:
  • family
• politics:
• Roman Forum [Alt Roman Forum]

Republican Worldview

• values: fides, auctoritas, pietas, virtus, disciplina
• sense of ____________
• ____________ governance

Conclusions

• the "western heritage"
• democracy and regionalism?
• republicanism and imperialism?

Links

• Go to Syllabus Lecture Outline
• Perseus: Athens
• The Ancient City of Athens
• La Casa Romana: great drawings of a Roman house, text in Italian.
• Pompeii Forum Project
• Polybius, Constitution of the Roman Republic
• Roman Art and Architecture