CLASSICS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Trojan War, Greek Language, Geometric Art
3 Oct 2016
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Practice of cremation developed (inhumation used in greece up to this point) 1200 bc - collapse of mycenaean hegemony, beginning of period known as dark ages : 1100-900 bc. Dorian invasion": invaders from the north, whom later greeks, in the 5th cen. Came from the north and brought with them a new dialect of greek called dorian. This dialect spoken in several parts of greece, on crete & in the area of sparta. This theory is old fashioned, but still held by some historians (not by archaeologists) Systems collapse: mycenaean civilization collapsed under its own weight. That greece was not invaded by outsiders, but that these people called the dorians" were already there. Mycenaean power structures taken over by dorians who were already there & spoke a different dialect. The material culture of 1100-900 shows cultural continuity, & no proof of invasion (e. g. no dramatic differences)
