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The Classical Greek Polis: Urbanism and Democracy

The Classical Greek Polis: Urbanism and Democracy. Reconstruction of the Greek c ity of Miletus in ancient Ionia. The Classical Greek Polis: Urbanism and Democracy. Priene , Turkey, 4 th cen. BC (c. 350 BC). I. Democratic culture produces a new kind of public space & new public buildings.

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The Classical Greek Polis: Urbanism and Democracy

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  1. The Classical Greek Polis: Urbanism and Democracy Reconstruction of the Greek city of Miletus in ancient Ionia

  2. The Classical Greek Polis: Urbanism and Democracy Priene, Turkey, 4th cen. BC (c. 350 BC)

  3. I. Democratic culture produces a new kind of public space & new public buildings A. What were the two poles of Classical Greek cities? Classical Bronze-Age Greece Priene, Turkey, 4th cen. BC (c. 350 BC) acropolis “high city” Mycenae (c. 1400 B.C.) hilltop citadel + palace = total urban area agora

  4. I. A. agora – town square, place where people assembled to agoreuein(“to speak to one another”) Priene, Turkey, 4th cen. BC (c. 350 BC) Aristotle said that an acropolis was suitable for oligarchy and monarchy and level ground for democracy (see Politics 7.10.4). Greek historian/ethnographer Herodotus wrote that the king of the Persia said: “I never yet feared the kind of men who have a place set apart in the middle of the city [i.e., the agora] in which they get together and tell one another lies under oath” (Herodotus, History, 1.153). acropolis downtown with agora

  5. I. B. Locate the major public buildings in a Classical Greek city I. B. 1. stoas a. Definition b. Activities displayed to the public in stoas Priene Priene, Turkey stoa agora

  6. I. B. 2. council/senate house (bouleuterion) Remains of the Bouleuterion in Priene Priene, Turkey

  7. I. B. 3. urban temples Remains of the Ionic Temple of Athena Polias in Priene, c. 334 B.C. Priene, Turkey

  8. I. B. 4. theater Theater at Priene, c. 300 B.C., seats 6000 Priene, Turkey

  9. I. B. 4. Greek theaters bind audience to place through performance Theater at Priene, c. 300 B.C.

  10. II. Planned cities in Greece: a reflection of Pythagorean principles and a product of democratic values Archaic period: Greek colony of Paestum (Italy) Classical period: Greek new town of Priene (ancient Ionia)

  11. II. A. The Hippodamian city plan Priene Miletus Piraeus (port of Athens)

  12. II. A. 1. Who was Hippodamus of Miletus? Hippodamus of Miletus (5th cen. B.C.), the first to theorize the gridded city plan. Priene, Turkey

  13. II. A. 2. What were the five main features of the Hippodamian plan? Priene, Turkey 1. Streets at right angles. 2. Quarters divided into blocks 3. Blocks subdivided into housing lots 4. Public buildings set into the system without interfering with traffic 5. Plan laid over any terrain. Priene

  14. II. A. 3. How do we know that Pythagorean principles governed nature and not the other way around? Priene: N/S street from temple to agora Priene: main E/W street

  15. II. A. 4. What is the nature of city wall in Greek planned cities? Priene, Turkey

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