Iliad & Odyssey
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Iliad & Odyssey (Major civilizing factor for ancient Greeks)
Was basic education (standards of people)
Minority learned how to read and write in Greek by theses books.
Learned religion, poems, play writes
Deals with royalty, atostrocracy(?), skillful warrior, honorable.
Warriors in the story were based on Hubris (Excessive pride).
Romans learned about Greeks by I & O.
Sparta
Laconic (means not articulate. Used very few words)
Very unexpressive, kept everything simple
Institute all kinds of rules and regulations to control from life to death.
Breaking rules would be destroyed
Taranto
Only one colony found at sparta
Conquered messenians
Turned messenians to helots, which out numbered 10 out of 1 Spartans
Helots were not enslaved
Lycurgus was the law giver (king of dark ages)
Plutarch (biographer) wrote about lycurgus.
Laws of Lycurgus regulated every aspect of life from birth to death
Gov't (totalitarianism) controlled life in Sparta.
Spartan family (no father, by gov't)
Girls indulged with running wrestle, body building to be strong...