CAS HI 101 Lecture 5: 5 The Cost of Internal Conflict
16 Oct 2016
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The cost of internal conflict: man the political animal: ancient greece. All about the coast, the seas, the ships. After the collapse: greek in the archaic age. The rise of regional chieftains and city states. Trade and technology: iron, olives, and wine. Gods and games: olympus (olympic games), 776 bce. The rebirth of writing and formation of a literary canon. Homer, the iliad (10 year war, troy) and the odyssey (account of one of the. Greek heroes who fought in the trojan war) There is no unified political entity of greece until alexander the great. Gods were active, jealous, and infinitely knowable (if you were human you could understand what the gods wanted; they felt familiar, unlike the hebrew god) Highly developed popular mythology and belief in the immanence of the divine. World (cid:449)as populated (cid:271)(cid:455) the gods" half-children and heroes; origin myths abounded. Cities telling stories about themselves in which they were divinely founded by a.
