Status Updates From A Companion to the Classica...

[V]alorizing the agrarian hoplite phalanx also provided a potent ideological tool for internal political struggles. In the late fifth century, Athenian elites looked back to a fictitious ‘‘ancestral constitution’’ [...] to critique the perceived failures of Athenian government. [...] The creation of a hoplite ideology may thus stand as the first important socio-military development of the Classical period.

Did any of this happen as I tell it, or did it not? (Sophokles, Oedipus Tyrannus 1134–40)

Starting chapter 2

Finally got to the beginning of chapter one lol.