AR225 Lecture 2: AR225 Lesson 2
24 May 2017
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Bronze age aegean: refers to civilizations around the aegean sea. Heinrich schliemann (amateur archaeologist, german millionaire) inspired by the iliad/the. Odyssey: iliad: 10-year war fought by greeks against the city of troy. Agamemnon (king of mycenae) led expedition to retrieve helen (wife of spartan brother menelaus), who"d been seduced and taken by paris, son of trojan king. Frank calvert dug around hissarik, turkey (believed to be location of troy: joined by schliemann, who used crude, damaging methods, the site has 9 levels, the last of which was occupied ~1000 years ago. Dorpfeld: found troy to be at level vi, later arguments say viia (schliemann thought it was at level. Current excavations and theories about the trojan war. Today, site under direction of korfman: prosperity of troy vi likely depended on agriculture. Important trading area between black sea and the mediterranean. Homer refers to troy as ilium : hittite kings exchanged letters referring to hilusa (may be troy)
