AR104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Trojan War, Iron Age
25 Mar 2015
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Where we left off was the dark age in greece. Now with dark age we are getting into greek history proper. Looking into homer and the question about the trojan warwar at troy/ what happened at troy. In order to understand homer and troy something rather interesting/ important happening in. Greece. writing suddenly happening ie we have the alphabet. Sets greeks onto a completly different trajectory of civilization. Egypt is writing but does not take up the alphabet. Syllabary: (vowels lips not used but consonants lips are used) vowels are those sounds where in a syllabary are not written down you must guess at the vowels. Syllabarys work by guessing at where the vowels are placed such as kng (king) but must guess. A writing system in which we do not know what the vowels are. Requires a distinct segment of society (scribes) job day and night is to write things.
