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Notes on video lecture:
Themistocles, Silver, and Greek Naval Policy
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on June 24, 2015 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
prosecuted, clans, deceiving, expulsion, Athens, died, shards, Cimon, Athenian, naval, Persian, Odyssian, Just, abroad, polis, silver, one, Philaidae, preserved, family, arcon, trireme, slander, docks, Paros, Hoplite, 488, slaves, boule, enemies, wealth, Marathon
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domestic politics in             
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not idle during the                wars
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Miltiades
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very respected
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victory at                 
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launched a campaign against the island of           
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expedition was a failure
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upon his return, he was                     
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he belong to a clan called the                   
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was charged of                    the people
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had to pay fee which was the annual income of a good-sized           
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         before he could pay it
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eventually paid by his son            [KEE-mon]
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it was not that Miltiades did anything wrong
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we are seeing the feuding among the elite           
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conducted within the new democratic system
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ostracism
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       BC first ostracism in the aftermath of Marathon
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left for 10 years
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occurred once a year
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names written on pot             
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while he was gone, his property was                    for him
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when he returned, he assumed full civil rights
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the elite families would use ostracism to get their political                temporarily out of the way
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put an end to the wholesale                    of clans
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just one person with his immediate              who had to leave
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487 BC: procedure for selecting the archons changes
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up to this time they had been elected
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now they are selected by lot put together by the           , the council of 500
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term of office        year
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becomes honorific and less of a political factor
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weight moving toward elected board of ten generals
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Themistocles
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from an old family but not elite
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rumor was his mother was not                  and perhaps even a slave
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but probably just a political               
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the trickster of Athenian politics
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the                  figure in Athenian political life
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served as an            in the late 490s
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started to built a wall at Piraeus [Πειραιάς], the port city
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almost certainly fought at Marathon
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discovered              in the south of Greece
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gave Athenians new source of             
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mining then was much more dirty and dangerous, reserved for              and captives in war
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Themistocles persuade the Assembly not to use the new treasure to build a wall but to built ships, specifically triremes
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this instituted what was to be called "the            policy"
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reliefs in stone have been found of triremes
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from of                had a metal beak on it which was used to punch a hole in an enemy ship
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troop of soldiers at front ready to fight hand-to-hand
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               warfare was self financed
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triremes depended on labor to build ships, maintain the           
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poorer citizens had a new source of income
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trend was increasing democracy at home and increasingly militaristic policy             
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late 480s
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Aristeides, son of Lysimachus
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ostracized
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a traditional politician
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famously upright, "Aristeides the         "

Vocabulary:

trireme, n. [τριήρης] an ancient vessel and a type of galley (a low, flat ship with one or more sails and up to three banks of oars, chiefly used for warfare, trade, and piracy) that was used by the ancient maritime civilizations of the Mediterranean, especially the Phoenicians, ancient Greeks and Romans, the name means "with three banks of oars". ⇒ "What Themistocles did was to persuade the Assembly not to spend the proceeds from the newly discovered silver mines to build a wall, but to build ships, specifically triremes, the Greek war ship par excellence."
ostrakon, n. [ὄστρακον] a piece of pottery, usually broken off from a vase or other earthenware vessel, used in ancient Athens, each person of the voting public would scratch the name of a person on the shard of pottery in order to banish or exile that person from society from the city for a period of ten years, thus giving rise to the term ostracism ⇒ "In the late 480s, certainly at the instigation of Themistocles, one Aristides, the son of Lysimachus, was ostracized, this ostrakon showing one vote in his favor."

People:

######################### (510-450 BC)
[KEE-mon]
  • Athenian statesman and military general in mid-5th century BC Greece, played a key role in creating the powerful Athenian maritime empire following the failure of the Persian invasion of Greece by Xerxes I in 480-479 BC
  • son of Miltiades, the victor of the Battle of Marathon
  • elevated to the rank of admiral after fighting in the Battle of Salamis (against Persian Empire in 480 BC)
  • one of his greatest exploits was his destruction of a Persian fleet and army at the Battle of the Eurymedon river in 466 BC (now the Köprüçay river in Turkey)
######################### (524-459 BC)
[Θεμιστοκλῆς]
  • Athenian politician and general, one of a new breed of non-aristocratic politicians who rose to prominence in the early years of the Athenian democracy
  • a populist, having the support of lower class Athenians, and generally being at odds with the Athenian nobility
  • elected archon in 493 BC, he convinced the polis to increase the naval power of Athens
  • during the first Persian invasion of Greece, he fought at the Battle of Marathon, possibly one of the 10 Athenian generals in that battle

Spelling Corrections:

Themisticles ⇒ Themistocles

Flashcards:

when was the Battle of Marathon
490 BC
Hesiod's Creation Myth: Theogony
The Spartan Way of Life
600 BC Tyrants and Sages: Cypselus and Periander
800-700 BC: Athens Before Solon
Solon Against Political, Economic, and Moral Decline
Peisistratos: Tyranny and Civic Identity
The End of Athenian Tyranny and the Democratic Revolution
508 BC: The Democratic Reforms of Cleisthenes
Herodotus and The Histories
The First Persian War and the Battle of Marathon
Themistocles, Silver, and Greek Naval Policy
Xerxes and the Second Invasion of Greece
The Delian League
From Delian League to Athenian Empire
Pericles: Aristocrat, Orator and Democratic Citizen
Sophocles' Antigone: Tragedy and Athenian Civic Life