Wed., 1/22

Do Now—Exercise 27E—Your answer:

Summarize the story of Codrus (p. 281, ¶ 5 - 282, ¶ 1) in five or more complete sentences. Include the social and political context of the time. Number your sentences.

Read:

p. 314 (top of Ch. 45) – p. 318, ¶ 1.

HW—Exercise 27E—Model answer:

Returning from the Troy, the Greeks faced problems that included fires, plague, and invasion. A seer announced that the invading Dorians would successfully conquer Athens if they did not kill their leader, Codrus. To thwart this prophecy, the Athenian king dressed as a commoner and, starting a fight with some Dorian soldiers, was killed. Because of Codrus’s virtuous deed, the Dorians backed away for a short while, and physical evidence indeed suggests that Athens was spared destruction. Over the course of a century the illiterate Dorian invaders nevertheless took over the peninsula, bringing a dark age to Greece.