HIST 2850 Lecture 3: HIST*2850 Week 2
18 Apr 2016
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Minotaur all consuming bull that ate human sacrifices. Thera: 1645bc volcanic eruption caused destruction of the island. (cid:1) (cid:1) Hypothesized to have caused the ultimate downfall of crete [last straw] (ash cloud, tension & stress etc in society) (cid:1) Heavy, full-bronze armour with boars tusk helmet. Troy greeks sacked the city, raping & pillaging - 1184 bc. Series of poems about twilight of mycenaean period. Description of warriors in iliad are 400-500 years out of date anachronistic ex. Some historical truths destruction of troy 1184 bc evidence of destruction by fire (burning of troy) Homer valuable in description of political structure of the. Hereditary line of kings ruling, basileis, warrior mycenaean kings . Ethics & values: iliad (recounts ten years of trojan war) Doesn"t historically line up, dates, armour, etc. all wrong. But values, beliefs (characteristics of the greeks), political structure is all correct.
