Classical Studies 1000 Lecture 1: LECTURE ONE
15 Sep 2016
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Primary: anything from the ancient world; coming directly from the subject/age of study. Secondary: what modern scholars have to say about the primary sources. The tools that were developed became the name of the era. Mainlanders came to crete around 130,000 bc from europe. Labyrinth to feed the minotaur (his bastard son: son of athenian and ariadne (daughter of minos) went into the. Sir arthur evans went to knossos and discovered the palace: he called the civilization the minoans", the building is described as agglutinative" (glued together) Relative chronology: affected by new discoveries. Forcing people to do things to maximize production. The nature of the storage jars, religious shrine = the palace was the center of everything. Compels people to create excess (food, products, etc. : promotes civilization. People were paid with the excess (food) All the nice artwork, etc was used to trade: mercantile, sophisticated agriculture.
