1. Plutarch’s Life of Themistocles Peitho in the Service of City and Self

2. Agenda Oral Report (conclusion) Natham, Christina, Orin Recap and Update The Road to Democracy… Themistocles Son of Neocles Biographical Overview Themistocles for President! A Good Idea?

3. Oral Report (conclusion) Natham, Christina, Orin

4. Recap and Update The Road to Democracy…

5. Historical Sketch Greece ca. 1200 BCE – Trojan War ca. 800 – Emerging poleis Athens ca. 620 – Draco’s law code 594/3 – Solon’s reforms 560-510 – Peisistratean tyranny 507 – Cleisthenic reforms

6. 9-Oct Readings: Issues Justice and the state – Stasis, eunomia – monarkhia, isonomia Constitutional concerns – Democracy – Oligarchy – Tyranny Questions of peitho – Monarchy – Charismatic democracy

7. Athenian Democracy ca. 485 dēmos 10 stratēgoi boulē 500diskastēria9 archons “The polis...... of the Athenians” Areopagus…

8. Themistocles Son of Neocles Biographical Overview

9. Biographical, Historical Info ca. 528. Birth 493/2. Archon 490-479. Persian WarsPersian Wars 482. Aristides ostracizedostracized 480. Themistocles Strategos ca. 472. T’s ostracism, condemnation 462. Death in exile

10. Battle of Salamis

11. Ostracism Themistocles son of Neocles, of the deme Phrearrus Aristides son of Lysimachus

12. “It is said, in fact, that Themistocles was quite carried away by his yearning for fame and that his ambition to play a part in great events had become a passion with him.” (Plutarch Themistocles pp. 79-80 Penguin) legetai gar houtō paraphoros pros doxan einai kai praxeōn megalōn hupo philotimias erastēs.

13. Themistocles for President! A Good Idea?

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