CLASSICS 1M03 Lecture : CLASSICS 1M03 Lecture slides
27 Apr 2013
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On the one hand, fairly typical mediterranean region. Plato: we sit like frogs around a pond . No part of mainland greece is more than 35 miles from the sea. The sea is their method of travel, communication, and exchange. Greek communities spread throughout mainland greece and the mediterranean. Common greek language, customs and religion, but never a unified state. Greeks would define their identity and citizenship chiefly by their polis. No written greek sources until at least 7th century bce homer. For greeks, all before that is prehistory myth and legend. Written records on clay tablets (late bronze age) Invasion into mediterranean region, domination of local groups. Linear a and b: 1900 bce cretan pictographic writing. Preserved on clay tablets in palace at knossos. Named after mycenae: 2000 bce early indo-european peoples move into greece. Deciphered in 1953 (michael ventris and john chadwick) Schliemann and later archaeologists find many examples around mycenae of two types of graves:
