CLAS 1000 Lecture 2: September 8

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 1000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

Benefitted by already advanced civilizations in north africa. 10000-2000 bc is approximately the neolithic era, this is the stone age. The greek have an obsession of caves and cannibalism, and monsters and other taboos have their origins in the neolithic era. 3000-1200 bc on crete is in the bronze age, which is when they mix copper and tin to make bronze a harder metal. There is a hypothesis of the dorian invasion, that caused the dark age, the minoans and. This theory involves the eruption of a volcanic island that caused things like a tsunami and or the volcanic ash as well, where most civilizations are under threat of extinction. His story begins with zeus, according to myth, zeus came to earth in the form of a giant white bull. He then abducts a beautiful woman called europa, from phoenicia and swims from the east side of the mediterranean to crete with her on his back.