HIST 1001 Lecture : Week 5 Notes
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No more walled cities (hard to build) Greek speakers living outside normal place of mycenaeans. Simple, agricultural society: characteristics, poets and pre-socrates, dark ages: 1000 750 bc. Archaic age: 750 550 bc: characteristics of revival age, pre-socrates of archaic greece, thales of miletus, anaximander. Oracles were important for communicating with the gods, priestly. Revival of trade and economy (wine and olive oil) Beginning of the olympic games at olympia (festival to zeus) Olympics important (coming together and celebrating) because of timekeeping and record keeping. Phoenicians had their own alphabet, similar to greek alphabet. Beginning of coinage, minting coins (silver and gold) Hesiod was a writer of epic poetry. Theogony was a type of poetry that involved stories of the gods, origins of the gods, and the titans. Work and days , one of hesiod"s poems, talked about agricultural life. Iliad and odyssey, homer"s greatest work => iliad discussed the trojan. War and odyssey discussed the journey home for the warriors.
