CLA232H1 Lecture : January 10th Lecture
Document Summary
Barbarians drank beer and unmixed wine considered wrong by the greeks. Greeks drank only wine mixed with water, didn"t get totally drunk and only drank socially. Alterity: the relationship between the self and the other. Alterity can give false or simplistic views of the other, give rise to "zenophobia", the fear of the other, or "misogeny", the hatred of women. There are moments in greek history where they do try and understand the others, or barbarians. Greece: got tin from italy, wheat from egypt, wood from macedon, and they also got cultural interactions with the people they considered barbarians. Greeks depended on the sea for food, and their power; whoever controlled the aegean and the mediterranean controlled the trade, etc. Athens had the biggest navy, and were thus the most powerful city. Only 20% - 30% of greek land was arable, very mountainous; staples were barley, olives, and grapes, which could all be grown without much land.
