CLAS201 Lecture 3: Lecture 3.docx

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS201
• Professor: Nicholas Maes

Document Summary

Review: pelasgian (the population that was in greece), minoans (based on people in crete; have more cultural interactions with pelasgian), helladic branch of the indo-europeans (somewhere from central europe) become the mycenaean (the first real group of greeks) Indo-european invade the pelasgian and became fused: cultural influence from minoan injected into this helladic indo-european culture, genetically, indo-european features dominated. Typical ancient greek got his image from indo-european: linguistically, slanted to the indo-european language, religiously, there was fusion of patriarchal olympianism with the chthonic, fertility, goddess based religion, after 400 years, all this became the mycenaean population. Zeus and hera passage: thetis approaches zeus and gets him to help the trojan win so agamemnon will want. Ilion was another name for troy: there is many irony in this passage menace to men, first, hector, in order to keep his family safe, must dress in armor and be a.