# GEP1005 Week 7 Part 6

**Channel:** BAUGO
**Source:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRIXlOjZ--o
**Transcript page:** https://www.withtranscript.ai/video/fRIXlOjZ--o

## Chapters

- 0:09 — Ancient Greek Society and Citizenship
- 2:11 — Homer and the Epic Tradition
- 3:10 — Early Greek Poetry and Art

## Transcript

**[0:09]:** we continue with the ancient greece part two key concepts of this chapter are homer iliad and odyssey doric ionic corinthian order temple sculpture agora gods goddess let's begin with the society in the ancient greece if you remember from the part 1 of this chapter there was a powerful land-owning aristocrat class by the way do you know what aristocracy means the term originated from greek aristocratia aristo means the best kratos means to govern to rule aristocracy means the rule of the best many italians and people in other city states believed in the political virtue of the aristocracy or the rule of the best being a citizen was a privileged status in the ancient greek society three farmers were citizens and they had the right to participate in assemblies however foreigners are migrants slaves and women could not be citizens councils played important role in the ruling older city-states however there was domination of aristocratic rule in

**[1:33]:** spite of the fact that greek culture represented women as goddess and powerful figures in religion and theater society was highly patriarchal that is to say there was a male controlled structure social elementary were treated as inferior pericles saying for women failed men explains the general idea for the women in the hellenic time conditions of them had been improved they became more visible in public life some aristocrat women gained new functions like they could open a cultural

**[2:11]:** club when we hear about greek poetry most probably homer iliad and odysseus come to the mines around 800 bc there was an increased interest in the historical events of the past they were perpetrated by people like homer who told stories about the heroin past of greece eliot and odyssey were the two great epic greek poems originated in an oral tradition of poetry america poems narrated greek society in the dark ages including the legendary mycenean war with troy it is accepted that iliad and odyssey were written down possibly by homer homeric epics about the definition of gods and human nature shape profoundly greek thinking after him other greek poets from cities such as sappho of lesbos

**[3:10]:** anna greene of taos alcis of mittelini wrote plans that range from military songs to lyric statements a distinctive greek art on architecture and sculpture also being began to emerge at this age it will be discussed in the following section as a separate subject