sb: lecture notes

Author: amorriscode

data/second-brain/Comic Reading List.md

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 - Absolute Flash #4
 - Absolute Green Lantern #1
 - Absolute Martian Manhunter #7
-- Absolute Superman #14
+- Absolute Superman #15
 - Absolute Wonder Woman #15
 - Assorted Crisis Events #7
 - Batman (2025) #3

data/second-brain/Introduction to Ancient Greek History.md

@@ -120,4 +120,24 @@
 	- Fighting for their city
 - The honour code has moved from the individual to the whole (polis)
 - Colonization begins due to a need for new farmland
-- Colonization allowed Greeks to start learning/adopting more from other civilizations
+- Colonization allowed Greeks to start learning/adopting more from other civilizations
+# Greek Tyranny
+- Tyrannos (tyrants) are rich, wealthy rulers
+	- Monarchos, absolute power
+	- Power was not legitimately acquired
+	- Unconstitutional single ruler
+- Persians didn't adopt hoplite phalanx because they preferred calvary and had no civic moral commitment
+	- Persians were a bunch of people whose loyalty was not voluntary
+	- You can't copy the ethos of the polis, you have to live it
+- Tyranny emerged due to
+	- Population growth
+	- Rising merchant classes shut out from power
+	- The hoplite revolution
+- Tyrants did some good things
+	- Built temples
+	- Engineered water supplies, sewers, aqueducts
+	- The agora as a civic/commercial center
+	- Patronized poets, sculptors, architects
+	- Expanded colonization and trade
+	- Spread wealth
+- Tyrants never make it past 3 generations