CLASSICS 1M03 Lecture 1: Notes - Ancient Greece (Full Course)
20 Apr 2017
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The dark and archaic ages / lecture 17 / march 17, 2017. On a much smaller scale and simpler were the dark ages small communities lived in poverty and raised crops. They still had kindships a(cid:374)d ki(cid:374)gs still led i(cid:374) (cid:449)a(cid:396)ti(cid:373)es (cid:449)ith (cid:396)eligious duties, (cid:271)ut the pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) did(cid:374)"t (cid:374)eed the ki(cid:374)g to (cid:396)ea(cid:272)h god a(cid:374)(cid:455)(cid:373)o(cid:396)e a(cid:374)d the monarchs disappeared. The units were smaller, arranged in the polis, or city/city-state. Each combined laws and religion, and the fundamental family unit had the oldest living male as the dominant economic and religious figure. The greeks are identifiable by now in ethnic subgroups designated by dialect they can all understand each other: aeolic, dorian - d (cid:373)os, a do(cid:396)i(cid:272) (cid:449)o(cid:396)d (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g a (cid:272)itize(cid:374) that e(cid:448)ol(cid:448)ed i(cid:374)to de(cid:373)o(cid:272)racy. Colonization occurs: greeks are spreading, though the phoenicians held the west and north africa, trading through mediterranean, colonized carthage who helped form the greek alphabet.
