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Here are some of the summary sentences you all came up with in class Age of Pericles The Age of Pericles argues that as the Athenian leadership evolved, there was a further opening of access to government to allow rules to maintain power. With the government expanding, the people grew really proud that they, the Athenians, had democracy, and they spread it using empire. The Age of Pericles argues that the Athenian need to spread and preserve democracy was largely influenced by threats of conflict from without and within. Athenian Democracy: Modern Mythmakers and Ancient Theorists “Modern Mythmakers and Ancient Theorists” enumerates the concept that Athenian democracy cannot be examined properly without considering the ages that preceded it and succeeded it. The text claims that the common viewpoint of early democracy, particularly that of Athens, has been skewed by modern historians who have, over the years, shown a tendency to glorify this time period. Centaurs and Amazons In Centaurs and Amazons, Plato and Aristotle bring up a discussion of social hierarchy and subordination. Plato has several myths for why there needs to be a distinction between certain social classes and their relative value. Dubois argues for a view of the transformation of Athens from the 5th to the 4th centuries bce in terms of ideas about subordination within society and between societies. In Centaurs and Amazons, Dubois describes the appeal of hierarchical, elitist structure of Athenian society after the age of Periclean democracy. These arguments emerge after the Periclean “golden age” of democracy partially because of conflicts with Sparta, which undermined elites’ faith in the power of the demos. Dubois offers arguments for the justification of the stasis (dysnomia, disorder) that evolved in ancient Athens with a post-democratic government.