CLST 200 Lecture 6: Clst 200 lecture 6.docx

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 200
• Professor: Prof.

Document Summary

Archaic age: c. 750/700 c. 500/480: writing is only restarting at this time, alphabet is based on phoenician alphabet. No more syllabic script, use vowels: pithikoussai: phoenicians and greeks living in the same community could have been when writing started. Social tension beginning at this time: dark age time of rising wealth. Very little historical records at beginning: group from sparta founds colony at tarentum. Group who didn"t fight became unacceptable and must leave. Sparta was expanding power, had attacked messenia. Plot of land inherited by sons of owner. People need money and hire selves out for manual labour: typically to aristocratic elite. Majority don"t have enough land to survive: synoikism. Mostly in south: where communication with other groups was established. South looked at them as lesser beings: colonization: greeks in the mediterranean. Magna graecia (major greece) south of italy: naples, good land / climate, not far from greece, known to them through phoenicians and etruscans.