Classical Studies 2300 Lecture 1: Lecture 1

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2300
• Professor: David Lamari

Document Summary

C h r o n o l o g ic al timel in e. B c o r b c e ad o r c e. 4 t h c en t u r y b c = 4 0 0 -3 0 1. Number of civilizations that predate the greeks. They live in the lands we"ll be discussing. Civilizations on greece, though some of these civilizations don"t. Many of them behave entirely different from what we would identify as the greeks (i. e. , live very differently from the. Greeks, he talks about ppl who live past the bronze age. Just because they live in greece, they aren"t called greeks. Minoans (one of the civilizations that lived there) The civilizations collapsed and gave rise to this age (dorian invasions) For these years, the populations decreased and civilization went in reverse, and literacy was reversed; standard of living in general plummeted.