CLA 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Helladic Period, Neolithic, Lerna

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

Document Summary

Lecture 3 early bronze age hellas (cid:1) The chalkolithic period its right between the neolithic era and (cid:1) the bronze age. During this time, the people were working with metal but were (cid:1) still using stone tools. With the arrival of metallurgy meant that the. Hellene society had achieved another criteria of civilization. (cid:1) Like many other things, prometheus claims responsibility for (cid:1) bringing metallurgy to the human race. (cid:1) Bronze is an alloy of copper and either tin or arsenic. It was (cid:1) used to make better tools, weapons and was used to display wealth, however there was no tin or arsenic in hellas so the need for it opened up trade. (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Early bronze age commonalities: agriculture, metallurgy, language (aegean, pottery made without the use of a potters wheel. The story of herakles and the hydra originated from lerna in the peloponnese.