CLA101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hippodamus Of Miletus, Comitium, Phratry
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Lecture title: the rise of the polis and city-state. Aegean stronger at beginning of 12th century: relocation of populations away from coast back to hills (on. Bce; replaced by red-figure pottery w/ red silhouettes on a black background in; came from athens in 6th c bce and lasted until. 900 everything packed into pot during burial. 800 - everything changes in athens, cremations stop, fewer grave goods deposited, pots displays fewer variations in shape and style. Elaborately decorated, monumental size for pots that are grave markers. 725 - children buried alongside adults for first time, no grave goods, offering trenches, not everyday items. 700 (archaic) cremation resumes - involves burning of corpse in the burial site (totally different from 100 years earlier) all offering are in trenches, only burial in cemeteries outside community area being marked out specifically. Collapse of mycenaean palace - transition towards concerns of the individual and the individuals" place in the community they live in.
