CLA204H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ex Nihilo, Minoan Civilization, Anax
Document Summary
Records of people were found by arthur evans: linear a, which cannot be read. The minoans were weak because they had just suffered from a volcanic eruption. The people of the sea: controlled minoan territory. The mycenaean started protecting themselves from the people of the sea (at pylos) ~63 sites were victim to this type of attack. For the next 200 years: classical period (480-323 bce) Philip of macedon exploited the divisions of the greek. Alexander the great: took his army all the way to india. He spread the greek culture all the way to afghanistan. ~700 bce: nestopi (of nestor): meaning that literacy was back in greece because of exploring. Stablishes the world-axis: where the natural and divine/supernatural intersect. Everything might have a myth attached to it. A god (-like) creates the cosmos through some kind of activity after saying he/she would.
