HIST 1001 : Exam 2
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The early greeks: discovery of new civilizations, homer and schliemann, minoan civilization, mycenaean civilization, homer, greek poet around 750-650 bc most famous for two epics: iliad and. All her suitors signed a waver that said they"d help her husband if anything was to happen to her: hector, paris" brother troy, achilles, story is set in the distant past, but it was written around 700/750. Bc: scholars believed it to be fantasy/mythology, heinrich schliemann, 1822, german, father was a merchant, as a boy, schliemann was a prodigy and was great with languages. Father was alcoholic, lost all his money, and couldn"t send his son to school anymore. If homer was right about troy, he must be right about everything else. He describes the outfits/battles as battles from his time: sir arthur evans. "theogony: literally means origins of the gods, preserves the story of the titans and how they were destroyed by.
