CLA 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Boeotia, English Alphabet, Lefkandi

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

Document Summary

Lecture 8 dark ages: migration & the alphabet. Start using iron (unattractive metal but made better products) 75% decrease in population on the mainland of hellas. *deterioration in pottery: no pictoral art; rough; not nice to look at. Early dark age time of constant conflict. *return to using stone tools, clay beads for jewellery. With the arrival of the early dark age, there was change in the areas of greek settlement. The migration across the aegean was the first major expansion of the greek world. Migration = the spread of greek: culture; religion; Tantalus was the mythical founder of smyrna and it was rumoured to be homer"s hometown. Middle layer: similar to pottery found in thessaly & First and only new monumental building between 1200 700 bce. Female, gold garments covered in gold sheets, knife with ivory handle. Presence of gold, ivory and bronze at lefkandi suggest that the euboian island has connections with the world outside hellas.