CLASSICS 2E03 Lecture 1: All Classics1M03 Lecture notes
11 Apr 2016
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As societies grow, they become more complex. From pre-state to state-level societies: state formation. Adaptation to complexity by centralization and stratification. Centralization leading to a state, extracting surplus resources and monopolizing public decision- making. Stratification: social hierarchy, with socio-economic elite becoming a ruling class, controlling the state. State formation: c. 3000 mesopotamia & egypt; c. 2000 crete (minoans); c. 1500 greece (mycenaeans: 1150-750: greek dark age. C11th: depopulation, a world of isolated villages; c. 1050: ionian migrations; beginning iron age. Greek renaissance of the c8th: growth, development, 2nd period state-formation. Greece and greekness: not one state but many, rival states sharing a larger common culture. C8th: beginning of formation of individual states, but also of panhellenism (olympics, delphi) The greeks: mainland greece, aegean islands, ionia, colonial states (c. 730-580) C8th: from the geometric to the return of the figurative. Panhellenic poetry: second half c8th- ho(cid:373)e(cid:396)(cid:859)s iliad & od(cid:455)sse(cid:455)
