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Notes on video lecture:
The End of Athenian Tyranny and the Democratic Revolution
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on April 7, 2015 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
527, boule, tandem, Peisistratos, Athens, Hipparchus, arts, recalled, offended, partnered, Harmodius, ten, leaderless, controversy, Kleomenes, personal, Alcmaeonid, Homer, Isagoras, Acropolis, exile, harsher, peacefully, paranoid, Panathenaea, category, tyrannicide, surrenders, Ober, virgins, accomplished, tyrant
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Peisistratos was a but a good ruler
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Aristotle devised a special for him
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tyranny is bad but he had to make an exception for
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as an ruler
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Hippias and
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BC: overtook Peisistratos' rule when he died
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tyranny was passed on to them
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rule
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ruled well and for over a decade
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supported the
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brought poets and singers to
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texts of took on their canonical form
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after years, things go bad
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and Aristogeiton
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killed Hipparchus in order to save Athens
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Thucydides is almost by this story
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says it was simply about a insult
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Hipparchus, the younger brother of the two, made an advance on Harmodius
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Harmodius was with Aristogeiton
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Hipparchus then insulted the family
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forbad Harmodius' sister from carrying the ceremonial offering basket at the festival
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the young girls who participate were supposed to be , so it was an insult
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514 BC: Panathenaea festival
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they kill Hipparchus
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this becomes known as the
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not the end of the tyranny
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Harmodius and Aristogeiton are killed
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Hippias' rule became much
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not surprisingly became against plots to kill him
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began to travel around with a body guard
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511 BC Hippias was expelled
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Hippias took refuge on the Acropolis
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that's always where one goes when one is exiled
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Spartan king came up
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helped Isagoras
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Kleomenes managed to capture some members of Hippias' family
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arranged negotiation
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Hippias left Athens with his family
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that was the end of the Peisistratid tyranny
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what happens next has been the subject of enormous
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Athenian revolution
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formulated by American scholar Josiah , Stanford University (1953-)
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the next big man to come up is Cleisthenes
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member of the clan, they're back
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Kleomenes and attempted to take over the state
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first step was to dissolve the council ( )
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the boule resists
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Kleomenes and Isagoras occupy the with Spartan garrison
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some say Cleisthenes rallied the people at this point, but he was actually in
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another source says that rest of the Athenians unite
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they beseige the Spartan occupiers
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on third day of seige
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Kleomens
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Spartans withdraw
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Cleisthenes is to the city
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this theory posits a , popular revolution
Vocabulary:
| boule, n. [BOO-lay] a council of citizens appointed to run daily affairs of ancient Athens, originally a council of nobles advising a king, in democracies a boule was composed of members typically chosen by lot and served for one year ⇒ "After the exile of Hippias, the first step of Kleomenes and Isagoras was to dissolve the boule." |
People:
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######################### (570-500 BC) [] Referred to by historians as the "father of Athenian democracy"
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Flashcards:
who were Peisistratos' sons who ruled after him
Hippias and Hipparchus
who killed Hipparchus
Harmodius and Aristogeiton
who was the father of Athenian democracy
Cleisthenes (570 BC - 500 BC)
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