MMW 11 Lecture 8: Athens: Early Greece and the Rise of Democracy
18 Oct 2016
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Mmw 11 lecture 8 citizens, sexuality, and greek drama. Stretches out toward egypt: connections between egypt and greece. Mountainous: mountains come down to sea, not room for cultivation, big cities. Communication difficult expect by sea: great sailors, moved goods/traded by sea. Land cut up into small pockets with areas of habitation isolated from one another: geographical fragmentation led to political fragmentation. Sort of united against a few empires like persians, alexander the. Important for institutions of western civilization: philosophy, drama, democracy, atheism. No revealed religion: no scripture, no sacred text everyone agrees on. Not powerful in the world: empire short-lived. Disruption: sea people invasion, natural disaster, division between mythological era of the greeks and historical era, period where literacy may have been lost. Linear b: gradually people come back to small households, start building back around 800. Fall of city of troy: helen of troy, possibly a real event, 1180 bce.
