{"id":677,"date":"2018-12-23T04:37:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T04:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/?p=677"},"modified":"2018-12-23T04:37:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T04:37:23","slug":"democracy-ancient-athens-at-trinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/2018\/12\/23\/democracy-ancient-athens-at-trinity\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Democracy: Ancient Athens&#8221; at Trinity!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This coming J-Term at Trinity, Prof. Lauren Caldwell will be leading a course that will have students learn about ancient Greek history and politics through a role-playing game!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2018\/12\/parthenon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-678\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2018\/12\/parthenon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2018\/12\/parthenon.jpg 500w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2018\/12\/parthenon-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prof. Caldwell&#8217;s class will be re-creating the struggle to decide the political system in ancient Athens at a critical juncture in its history: 403 BCE. In that year, the Peloponnesian War came to a startling conclusion when the Athenians were finally defeated by the Spartans. The city was in chaos, torn by a civil struggle between the government imposed by the victorious Spartans, an oligarchy (ancient Greek: &#8220;rule by the few&#8221;) called the Thirty Tyrants and a rebel group that wanted the city to be a democracy (ancient Greek: &#8220;power of the people&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Students will play a specific role in this historical context and together determine the course of history!<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Caldwell&#8217;s &#8220;Democracy: Ancient Athens&#8221; course will meet for eight class sessions (Mondays through Thursdays) from\u00a010:00AM-12:30PM from 1\/7\/19 through 1\/18\/19 for 0.5 credits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2018\/12\/thrasybulus.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-679\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2018\/12\/thrasybulus.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"985\" height=\"985\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2018\/12\/thrasybulus.png 985w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2018\/12\/thrasybulus-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2018\/12\/thrasybulus-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2018\/12\/thrasybulus-768x768.png 768w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2018\/12\/thrasybulus-624x624.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 985px) 100vw, 985px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This coming J-Term at Trinity, Prof. Lauren Caldwell will be leading a course that will have students learn about ancient Greek history and politics through a role-playing game! Prof. Caldwell&#8217;s class will be re-creating the struggle to decide the political system in ancient Athens at a critical juncture in its history: 403 BCE. In that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2005,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}