CLAS 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Homeric Hymns, Greek Mythology, Phoenician Alphabet
24 Mar 2015
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This period is dark" because we have very little information about it. There is no system of writing: loss of linear b, nothing is recorded. Until 800 b. c. where the greeks adopt the phoenician alphabet, there is no written evidence. There is artwork that can be interpreted but they are not clear cut. Important period for mythology: great poets such as homer and hesiod. Homeric hymns: addressed to different gods on how they came to olympus, their powers, and how to worship them. The period at which there is hard evidence and written artifacts. : olympic games, during this time there is the emergence of the city states, colonization in the west. This period ends with persian wars, where persia comes together against greece and is defeated at the battles of: marathon (490 b. c. Period in which athenian democracy is transformed into the athenian empire, and comes to a close with the peloponnesian war (431-404 b. c.
