CLA-2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mycenaean Greece, Trojan War, Basileus
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Lecture 3-- the homeric world and the archaic period. Loss of writing writing was used as a political tool so once the palace system went there was no more need to write. Trade links broken lack of access to metals. Population decline not sure fact because how it was determined was (almost) no monumental architecture because of lack of evidence of grave sites but they might have been cremated. Spread outwards paradoxically fosters notion of greekness. Important because homer is from chios which is in ionia. Ho(cid:373)er"s (cid:449)ork set the io(cid:374)ia(cid:374) diale(cid:272)t as the common greek dialect. Small villages settle where they need to be settled. Basileus: used to (cid:373)ea(cid:374) (cid:862)(cid:448)illage (cid:272)hief/(cid:373)a(cid:455)or(cid:863, now means king. Importance of household (oikos) as a political unit: patriarchal and patrilineal (cid:862)re(cid:448)i(cid:448)al(cid:863): 9(cid:1004)(cid:1004)-700 bce. Reintroduction of writing via phoenicians they provided the alphabet language did(cid:374)"t (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge just the (cid:449)a(cid:455) the(cid:455) re(cid:272)orded it.
