CLCV 114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Magna Graecia, Ischia, Orientalizing Period
28 Oct 2016
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Early greek writing was written both left to right and right to left. They scratched their writing into pottery, stone, and then inked onto paper (papyrus) Papyrus is a material that was used to write on and was exclusively grown in egypt. In the 7th century, greek art enters orientalizing period: lions, sphinxes, griffins. Greeks start to communicate a lot more with non greeks. They increased their wealth, old communities coalesce, and new communities were built. Polis (plural poleis: autonomous, urban center, surrounding agricultural area, buildings for public use (religious, political, etc. , citizenship (polites, politai, civic identity. Athens: mycenean palace, later separate communities, synoecism (theseus). Athens broke apart and then theseus brought them back together. Greek poleis: distinct from one another. When they would break apart and built new cities, they made it look like athens. Homer might have not been a real person.
