Lecture Terms and Questions

September 21, 2000

arete	aristeia	polis
panhellenic	hero	heroon
Cleisthenes	Theseus	Theseia
Tyrtaeus	Sparta

1. How does the epic ideal of the hero tranformed into a polis ideal by Tyrtaeus in the poem we read?
2. How were heroes worshipped in a Greek polis? Be specific. How did such worship confirm ideas and institutions important to such a political entity?

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