HIS101H5 Lecture 8: Week 8 lecture notes
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Week 8 - the mediterranean; the first draft 10-30-14. Because it is at the centre of the discipline of classics. Because much of our modern culture originates there. Because in the past the mediterranean sea joined people together rather than pulled them apart. In the west we draw from ancient greece and rome. Socratic method, symposium, odyssey, all are greek words. Phoenicians developed the phoenician alphabet- one symbol, one. The phoenician alphabet is the ancestor to all writings. Phoenician writings did not survive outside any environment. Skilled sailors, traders, first appearance in levant (eastern. Canaanites, a chain of united town with large populations. Open to larger cultural influences, grew in power quite swiftly. Developed strong economy in trade of ivory, precious jewels, gold, silver. Hebrews went to phoenicians for cedar- evident in the bible. Byblos , a greek word for papyrus word for book ( biblion ) bible.
