University of Arkansas Fall, 2001; CLST 1003 Introduction to Classical Studies, Greece Professor Daniel Levine
T. R. Martin. Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times
Chapter 6: From Persian Wars to Athenian Empire
0. What did it mean when a people gave 'earth and water' to a representative of the Persian king? Who did this without knowing what it meant? What were the consequences?
1. How wealthy was the Persian Great king? How did he and his subjects interact?
2. What do we learn here about the religion of the ancient Persians? How does it survive today? (100)
3. Who said "Sire, remember the Athenians"? To whom was it said, and why?
4. What was the "symbolic importance of the Battle of Marathon" that "far outweighed its military significance"? (101)
5. Why did the northern Greeks medize? Why did Boeotia medize? (103) What do you think "medize" means?
6. Why did the great power of Syracuse not help her fellow Greeks against the Persian invasion? (103)
7. What was the problem with the Spartan king Pausanias as leader of the Greek coalition against Persia? How did the Greeks solve this problem? What was the reaction of the leaders at Sparta?(105-106)
8. Describe triremes and their use.
10. What was the Delian League, and how did its members come into Athenian control? (107)
11. What happened at Thasos in 456 BCE, and what did it show about the Athenians? (107)
12. How much money did the Athenian treasury receive each year in the middle of the fifth century BCE? Where did this money come from? What was the result? (108)
13. How did the Athenian rowers come affect the Athenian form of government and its foreign policy? (108-109)
14. Why was the use of a lottery for public office felt to be "democratic"? Why was it not a perfect method of selecting officials? (109)
15. How did an earthquake in Sparta result in a more radical democracy in Athens? (109-111)
16. What was the most significant of the democratic reforms of Ephialtes, and how did this system work? (110)
17. How did the ability to speak well in public become a vital part of legal proceedings in Athens? (111)
18. How did 'ostracism' work? Why was it so named? Why was it invented? (111-112)
20. Why is ostracism 'significant for understanding Athenian democracy'? (112-113)
21. What financial step did Pericles take that helped the poor to participate more fully in the Athenian democracy? What affect did that move have on his popularity? (113)
22. What was Pericles citizenship law reform? (113-114)
23. What were the rights that Athenian women enjoyed in the fifth century? What restrictions on them existed then? (114)
24. Under what circumstances was the treasury of the Delian League moved? From where, and to where was it moved? (114)
25. When and why did the Athenian assembly decide to stop sending out troops to fight Persians? (114-115)
26. How does the inscription concerning the agreement between Athens and Chalcis"reveal the imperiousness of Athens's dominance of its Greek allies in this period"? (115-116)
27. What were Athenian houses like? (116-117)
28. What were 'stoas'? What was a famous stoa? What was it like inside?
30. What are liturgies? Why did the Athenians have them?
31. Why had the Athenians purposely left the acropolis in ruins for thirty years after the Persian Wars? What construction did they begin in 447 BCE? How much did it cost? (117-119)
32. Describe the Parthenon's special technical refinements that provided 'optical illusions' to counteract natural distortions of perception. (119-120)
33. What are two interpretations of the Ionic-style frieze on the Parthenon? (120)
34. How did Archaic statues differ from statues in the Classical period? (121-123)
35. Why do some ancient marble statues (especially from the Roman period) have 'intrusive tree trunks' beside them? (122)