Jeremy McInerney - Age of Pericles, ZZZ Guidebooks
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The Age of Pericles
Part I
Professor Jeremy McInerney
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Jeremy McInerney, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Classical Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Jeremy McInerney received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1992. He was the Wheeler
Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and has excavated in Israel, at Corinth, and on Crete.
Since 1992, he has been teaching Greek history at the University of Pennsylvania, where he held the Laura Jan
Meyerson Term Chair in the Humanities from 1994 to 1998. He is currently an associate professor in the
Department of Classical Studies and chair of the Graduate Group in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean
World. Professor McInerney also serves on the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies
at Athens.
Professor McInerney’s research interests include topography, epigraphy, and historiography. He has published
articles in a variety of academic journals, including
Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies
, the
American Journal of
Archaeology
,
Hesperia
, and
California Studies in Classical Antiquity
. In 1997, he was an invited participant at a
colloquium on ethnicity in the ancient world, hosted by the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington. His book,
The Folds of Parnassos: Land and Ethnicity in Ancient Phokis
, is a study of state formation and ethnic identity in
the archaic and classical periods, and it was published by the University of Texas Press in 1999.
Dr. McInerney was the recipient in 2000 of the Ira Abrams award for excellence in teaching in the College of Arts
and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania and, more recently, received a Lindback award, the university’s top
teaching prize.
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Table of Contents
The Age of Pericles
Part I
Professor Biography
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Course Scope
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Lecture One
The
Agora
—An Ancient Marketplace.......................2
Lecture Two
Athens and the Persian Wars .....................................5
Lecture
Three
The Athenian Empire.................................................8
Lecture Four
The Career of Pericles .............................................10
Lecture Five
Aspasia ....................................................................13
Lecture Six
Parthenon and Acropolis .........................................16
Lecture Seven
Panathenaea—The Festivals of Athena ...................19
Lecture Eight
Paideia—
Education in Ancient Athens ...................21
Lecture Nine
Marriage in Pericles’s Athens..................................24
Lecture Ten
Family and Property ................................................26
Lecture Eleven
Coins, Trade, and Business......................................29
Lecture Twelve
Death and Burial ......................................................32
Maps
……………………………………………………………………………35
Timeline
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Glossary
.............................................................................................................39
Biographical Notes
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Bibliography
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The Age of Pericles
Scope:
Athens in the 5
th
century
B.C
. witnessed a cultural flowering of extraordinary power and importance for Western
culture. In this series of 24 lectures, we will use the career of Pericles as the prism through which to examine the
achievements of Athens in its golden age. Pericles first appeared on the public stage shortly after the Persian Wars,
seminal events that saw the Greeks defeat the numerically superior Persians. In the generation that followed, Athens
rapidly transformed the alliance of Greek states dedicated to taking the war back to Persia into an Aegean empire,
dominated by the Athenians and their fleet. At the same time, this dramatic increase in power and prestige was
accompanied by the growth of full participatory democracy. We examine the daily working of that democracy,
asking how an Athenian was trained for citizenship. What did democracy mean in practice? What did freedom and
autonomy mean to a society that relied on slaves and was ruthless in its treatment of its subjects?
To answer these questions, we juxtapose the breathtaking accomplishments of the Athenians, in fields such as
philosophy, tragedy, comedy, sculpture, and architecture, with the exclusion of women from public life, the torture
and abuse of slaves, and the execution of other Greek populations. We will follow the Athenians from the height of
their power to defeat at the hands of the Spartans. The picture that emerges is a portrait of a complex people and a
complicated culture. Restless, adventurous, sophisticated, crude, pious, the Athenians are a people whose culture
has a special significance for us. The ties between us are not casual, but deeply meaningful.
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