CLST 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hoplite, Ancient Greek Calendars, Ostracon
21 Jan 2016
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Ostrakon: large flat pot shard you can write on, scratching or using form of ink. 10s and thousands og these are preserved from greco- roman world, but only where soil conditions allow soil preservation. Vessles mainly ceraminc so lots of broken pottery. Ancient scholars discovered new plays on papyrus in egypt, personal letters, tax documents. Less important for period of this greek history, hellensitic (3d century) that it becomes important. Greek and latin did not write with word breaks or punctuation. Ancient greek world: literarcy rather widespread by ancient standards. Papyrus role being used in school, teaching all of the muses. Other be learning the wire, music and dance, and reading and writing. Core curriciulum was memorizing and odysseus and -----. Sources for greek history: bronze and dark age homer. literary author/poet but if select evidence gleam historical insights from. Homeric problem shorthand for the person or persons who write iliad and odyseeus.
