GEOG 1HA3 Lecture 2: CLASSICS 1M03 LECTURES_2013_SUMMER
16 Jan 2017
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Mediterranean: common greek language, customs and religion, but never a unified state, polis (greeks identity and citizenship chiefly by polis, ethnoi (rural regions) Sources on ancient greece: physical (material) record, written records, inscriptions, problem of selection and survival, intermittent and incomplete. Periodization of greece: minoan civilization (c. 2700-1600 bce, mycenaean civilization (c. 1900-1200 bce, )ron age or (cid:498)dark age(cid:499) greece (cid:523)1000-776 bce, archaic period (776-480 bce, classical period (480-323 bce, hellenistic period (323-31 bce) 1871 -> discovery of troy at modern hissarlik (turkey) 1876 -> schliemann discovers shaft graves at mycenae. Thalassa (cid:523)(cid:498)sea(cid:499)(cid:524) and kratos (cid:523)(cid:498)power(cid:499)(cid:524: colony of thera (modern santorini) Minoan language: linear a and linear b (cretan pictographic writing, developed into more advanced linear script. Decline of minoans: 1600 bce, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, 1400 bce. Mycenaean civilization: 2000 bce -> early indo-european peoples (cid:498)move(cid:499) into greece, linear b (examined in 1953, michael ventris, john chadwick, found it was an early form of greek, adapted from linear a.
