CLAS 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Christos Tsountas, Chalandriani, Heinrich Schliemann
18 Jan 2017
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Classical period: 480-323 (death of alexander) bc (480, athens sacked by persia) 2nd half of the 19th c: greek history begins in 776 bc (first olympian games: many historians say prehistory started in the dark ages. But a distante memory of events before 776 bc: homer, ca 750 bc: epic poems, included in those poems, repeating of stock phrases, epiphette, illiad, odyssey, written down after a long time. Iliad and odyssey, oral tradition + bronze age material culture mentioned. Saying there was a greece before 776 bc. Mycenaean/helladic: 1870s: heinrich schliemann (mycenae, tiryns, and troy) Cycladic 1890s: christos tsountas, greek archeologist. Minoan: 1899: arthur evans (knossos in crete) Lots of fish, good ports, good trading networks, the cycladies have obsidian stone and marble. Geographic location: east and west (stepping stone to the east and west) Dates based on material culture, changes on ceramics. Phylakopi, melos= stratified sequence of entire bronze age (1 site)
