CMRS 110 Lecture 1: Eur 1 Ion(3)

• School: U of S
• Department: Classical Medieval Renaissance
• Course: CMRS 110
• Professor: Porter John

Document Summary

[important note: our concern in this class is with the literary features of the works we"ll be reading and what those works have to say about the societies that produced them. While this requires a certain amount of historical background, i won"t be testing you on peculiar features of greek geography, or asking you to tell me who ion"s second cousin was on his mother"s side. But it is often important to raise such matters in setting the background to the plays. Items of general importance, but not the specific stuff of examination questions, will be underlined. (that is not to say, of course that the other material might not come in useful on an exam!)] Linguistic map of the classical greek world: http://www. thelatinlibrary. com/historians/maps/dialects. jpg. Boeotia (north of attica) region controlled by thebes. Thessaly (north of boeotia) one of the few regions in greece with good arable plains; noted for its horse breeding.