Classical Greece #1

History 126Dr. Anita Fisher

Lyric or archaic age 600-500 b.c.e

• Evolution of city-states in Greece• 3 most important city-states– Sparta– Athens– Thebes

• Age of expansion or colonization of other lands

Various Forms of GovernmentEvolved over the Centuries

• Hereditary monarchies – 9th c.– Rule by 1 man with absolute power

• Oligarchies – 8th c – Rule by few

• Dictators or tyrants – 7th c.– usurpers

• Democracies 6-5th c.

Comparisonof

Sparta & Athens 2 Different

Governments

Solon 639-559 b.c.e.

Ostrakon

Pericles

Aspasia

Pericles & Aspasia

Ballot Boxfor

Jurors

Guilty & Innocent

•Solid Disc - Acquittal or Innocent•Hollow Disc - Guilty

Reconstructed Agora

Athens

Sparta - Today

Spartan Boy

Spartan Boy

Spartan Woman

Acrobatic Girls

Greek Warfare

Greek Helmet

Construction of a

Helmet

2 Greek Hoplites Fighting

Greeks Fighting

HOPLITEHOPLITE

Archer Being

Treated

Phalanx Charge of Hoplites

Phalanx Formation

Trireme Greek Ship

Greeks Rowing Trireme

Persian Wars

Phidippides – Marathon Runner

Young Man From

Marathon

Darius King of Persia

XerxesKing of Persia

Gate of Xerxes

at Persepolis

Thermopylae Battle Site

Leonidas King of Sparta

Peloponnsian War Battles 431-404 b.c.e.

Greek Slave