I. Postscript to the age of colonization: developments in vase painting
A. Protogeometric (ca. 1,000-900 B.C.)
B. Geometric (ca. 900-700 B.C.)
C. Orientalizing, Protocorinthian, early Corinthian (ca. 725-600 B.C.); miniature style
II. Sparta
A. significance and appeal (cf. Amos&Lang)
B. early history and culture
C. Messenia; Tyrtaeus' martial poetry
D. Spartan education (agoge vs. paideia)
E. constitution: Lycurgus; gerusia, probouletic, ephors
F. more than the other half: helots, perioikoi, krypteia
III. Doric temples: triglyph, metope, architrave, capital, echinus, abacus, pediment; Parthenon, Paestum (Southern Italy)
IV. Early Athens; Agora, Acropolis
A. The 7th century: Draco (c. 624 B.C.)
B. The Reforms of Solon (594/93BC): Areopagus, ecclesia, boule, archon
C. Rendezvous with tyranny: Peisistratus (561-527 B.C.);
Thespis (534 B.C.), Panathenaic Festival;
Hipparchus vs. Harmodius and Aristogeiton (514 B.C.);
Hippias into Exile (510 B.C.)
D. The Reforms of Kleisthenes (508/507 B.C.); redistricting, Athenian style: 3x10 districts; 10 tribes; a Council (boule); an executive committee of the Council (Prytany) and its presiding officer of the day; ostracism