CLA 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Zoomorphism, Steatopygia, Lapiths

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 1101
• Professor: Heather Loube

Document Summary

Reading: c/f 30-31; eg ii and video (see below) Delta is for dimini and deka. Acrophonic numbers: used similar to roman numerals, stand for the first letter of numbers ( = deca= ten) Chalkolithic hellas = late neolithic (after neolithic and before bronze age) To be useful it must be combined w/ something else. Alloy of copper & tin or copper & arsenic. No tin or arsenic in hellas came from cornwall in brittan (thought) Early bronze age 3000 - 2000 bce (eba) p. 30-1. Know how to work mtal (metallurgy) make bronze, work w/ gold and silver. Language: (cid:494)agean(cid:495) (non- greek), from the sea name (names of places and things) (-ssos, -ttos, -inthos) Early helladic (eh) = mainland: eh architecture (middle helladic) Must have been protecting someone: improved housing. Features tiled roof made of stone or clay. Sealing archive made of stone or bone, & impress on damp clay to seal boxes (equivalent of initials)