CLAS 1000H Lecture 2: Greek Culture Lecture Notes 8-17
7 Oct 2016
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Bronze age: mycenaean culture (1600-1200 bce) To prove homer right about the iliad. Damaged and poorly excavated many important: greeks on mainland greece artifacts. Conquest around 1450 bce (militaristic greeks: writing systems. Inventory, records of transactions, troops: highly organized and hierarchical society, international connections. Trade and colonization, interaction with the hittites: very militarily oriented- images and walls surrounding cities. Bronze age ends in catastrophe: mass movement in the aegean, sea people, dorian invasion from the north, goes through greece. Dark ages (1200-800 bce: decentralization, lost ability to write, population decline, decline in trade on the mediterranean. Epic encounters: early archaic (800-700 bce: iliad and the heroic ethic. Time: honor , standing or estimation in society, inherited. What is due to you, very public in nature. Kleos: glory, fame, reputation , from a verb that means i hear", also individual great acts.
