CLA160H1 Lecture : CLA160 COMPLETE LECTURE NOTES.docx
Document Summary
Classical especially 1st millennium bc to the first half of the 1st millennium ad. The pinnacle of the greek civilization drama, literature, architecture. Periods proto, archaic (hesiod, etc), hellenistic (means like greek"), late (after constantine) 98% of all the literary sources are gone some of these texts from the late antiquity period survived: monks copied texts in the medieval period, many got lost the texts that we work with today, are medieval. Epigraphy tribute lists athenians listed all the tributes on stones: writing on stones coins, he had taken power as dictator and was advertising it on the coins. First time a man put his face on a coin while he was living before, it"d be goddesses and gods" faces only. Papyrus: a plant, reed stick grown in egypt, good for dry climate. Was very important for the western greeks to be like the homeland greeks. Very mountainous, rocky, and dry: because of this, city states were never unified.
