CLASSICS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Minoan Civilization, Hisarlik, Microsoft Onenote
3 Oct 2016
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The iliad and the odyssey retain cultural memory of mycenaean civilizafon long aher it had disappeared. Stories were let circa 1200 bc: not wrimen down in greek unfl circa 750 bc. The iliad: warrior culture like mycenae with wealth of metal an reference to trade and warrior honor system. Explorafon of warrior culture: great warrior angry at agamemnon, refuses to ght, monumental architecture described, but doesn"t exist in the fme stories. Iron age greece actually had scarce bronze, silver, gold are told: reduced social organizafon when stories being told, book 2 in iliad catalogs all of the greek ships involved in the expedifon. Story of odysseus trying to get home aher trojan war. Likely part of a set of stories of heroes returns: andromache, wife of hector. These poems would"ve seemed like fairy tales from a much richer fme. Long standing site, with periods of great wealth. Structures in a wall, lower site, with more walls around it.
