CLASSICS 2K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Robert Garland, Hisarlik, Menelaus
1 Dec 2015
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What was it like to be a person living in greece and. Rome? class men: trying not to focus only on the lives of rich upper. Not a standard history class, not just memorizing dates. Instead we will learn about what it was like to live in this society. Literature: highly literate societies, a lot of greek and roman literature was highly valued and respected, so it survives to this day. Inscriptions: the greeks and romans built with durable, long history of archaeological research materials that survive to this day, literacy not limited to writing literature, also included graffiti and tombstone inscriptions. Daily life of the ancient greeks by robert garland. Daily life in the ancient city by gregory aldrete. Agamemnon etc. ) fighting against the trojans, led by their hero, hector. The war began because paris, a prince of troy, ran off with helen of troy, the wife of menalaus.
