CLST 100 Lecture 1: CLST102 - Ch. 1

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 100
• Professor: Fabio Colivicchi

Document Summary

The kingdom of alexander: 323 bce - hellenistic age expansion of greece and its culture. The course will focus on 5th & 4th century bce. Inscriptions (laws, decrees, official documents, graffiti: literary works (historical works or other genres, contemporary or later than the events) What do the greeks know about their past: There were no written records that later generation could use it or not as intense. So what sources did they use? stories passed from generations from generations and cut and edited based on the context, the speaker, and the audience. However, people tend to not know much after their grandfather"s generation. The past is used to shape up the present. Either it is to justify the actions taken in the future. Herodotus, thucydides, and xenophon - three major sources on athenian history. Herodotus: the war between the greeks and the persians.