CLA 1101 Lecture 9: Lecture 9 Eastern Influences

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 1101
• Professor: Heather Loube

Document Summary

Reading: c/f 66-67; 70-75; 166-169 (doric order) + videos (see below) Is for kappa (krater mixing bowls for wine and water) Expanded commerce: keep track of trading goods. Recording oral epics: stories of heroes that developed in the late bronze age, poems (rhythm helped memory) Two short epics: inspired by muses, theogony, works and days. Lyric and song writer (quotation p. 74) Reflects reality (better to live and get away than to lose a shield) Age of colonization = archaic age: 750 - 479 bce. After metals (trade goods) and became settled cities. Why colonize: trade, overpopulation, adventure, political unrest, drought/ famine, opportunity. The perfect site: good agricultural land, harbor, water supply, easy to defend how to found a colony. Metropolis: pick a good spot, gets approval from apollo at delphi, appoints a leader, colonists, provides assistance. Send the sacred fire of the city with the colonists (in honor of.