CLAA04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Greek Dark Ages, Greek Alphabet, Kouros
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Firural art: orientalising phase ( ca. 900-609 bce: assumaspiral : 883-839, tiglath- pileser iii: 745- 727. Palaces destroyed and not rebuilt population declines. Loss of lietacy : linear b. not popular, strival language, read special( select few)specialize in it , loss it illiturte. Loss of figural art: draw animals, humans, then switches to geometric shapes. Political fragmentation: wanax, besileus : lord of kings, Besileus: local shepardhighest politacl authority kept from mycanean hierarchy but improved: loss of trade routes, end of bronze age beginning of iron age. Wide variety of meaings: we say city state, greek: 1) city ( house, wall, temples, court houses) physical instillations, 2) city + city and outlying territory (chora, 3) constitution/ government / institutions, 4) citizens, esp. citizen-soldiers. Important features in a polis: nomos( law/custom, citizen participation. Male only , free only, landowning, military service: three branches of government, magistrates (excecutive)
