CLA 2323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Greek Myths, Odysseus, Phoenician Alphabet

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 2323
• Professor: Efharis Kostala

Document Summary

: arrival of the earliest greek-speakers, overland from (?) the danube basin. The greeks migration is part of a much larger outward proliferation of indo-european-speaking peoples, starting from the caucasus mountains region, before 4000 b. c. 2200 1450: minoan civilization on the island of crete. The minoans were not greeks, but their cultured, technologically advanced society evidently provided a model for the early greeks to copy. In what is now northwestern turkey, modern archaeology has revealed a fortified city, destroyed by fire in about. We cannot know who destroyed the city, but speculation is tantalizing. 1200 1150: destruction of all the mycenaean cities, in close succession. Modern archaeology reveals signs of widespread destruction and economic depression, as compared with the. The greeks survived as a people, but in greatly reduced material circumstances. At this point they lacked knowledge of writing. 1100 500: greek oral storytelling tradition under the bards (greek: aoidoi, song singers, or rhapsoidoi, song stitchers ).