CLA230H1 Lecture 7: Archaic Greece 750 to 480
Document Summary
Later prose history none from the archaic, but later herodotus, thucydides, which give us accounts based on oral tradition [genealogy] Archaeology [way more ppl on the landscape, distrib of wealth wider, more goods and. Inscriptions [nestor"s cup, other pottery] construction, so leaves more behind] Trade increases, economic growth, literacy spreading transitioned from an iron age. Land hunger/pressure: [lots of ppl and limited resources] competition and strife for success of one"s land or craft to prevent failure, debt, default, shame, hunger, poverty, begging. Changes in wealth distribution new ways of making money, ld trade [of produce in. Work and days] which allows stored surplus and larger profits but also more risk. These prev issues lead to the development of types of poleis built around such characteristics. Competition betw aristocrats: basileus [hesiod is clearly elite, has an estate, but there is a level above him] increasingly bitter contest for power and the political system changes.
