GRST 205 Lecture 3: GRST Lecture 3 Notes

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Greek and Roman Studies
• Course: GRST 205
• Professor: Colin Ash

Document Summary

Out of the dark ages: rise of the polis. During the bronze age three principles cultures were discernible in the greek world. Evidence of major cultural developments begins to come not only from greece, crete, and the. Greek communities developed separate answers to common problems. Transition: social system, geometric period: geometric fashion, the orientalising period: asia minor influence. Declined severely and writing was lost during this time. All the so called sophisticated knowledge of the. Change in living conditions: unmaintained hubbles that were un-conditions, land owning aristrocaied, no one could read or write and war was frequent. From the foundation of the first olympic games (776 bce) until the second persian invasion of. Polis = urban centre, after 480 bce before 380 bce. Synoecism (remember: the urbanization process in the archaic period, the amalgamation of several small settlements into a single urban centre, took place in much of greece in the eight century bce.