CLAS 1000 : Chapter 7 - the setting for med..docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 1000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

Grew enoromously prosperous from trade and its own industries of which glass making and gem cutting were the most prominent mainly because it had road connections with po valley, italy and austria (reasons for economic prosperity) Sacked by the huns in ad 542 as the city disintegrated. Much of the mediterranean has lived on the edge of drought: the mediterranean, and its neighbor the black sea, are inseparable from the lives of most of the civilizations in this book . The black sea with its many harbours, bays and islands is safe enough for everyday travel but large and volatile enough in its behavior to contain the unknown and unexpected. Many myths revolve around the black sea as heroes encounter it as a struggle in their journey. The biggest fear is to die unburied in the black sea: tale of odysseus: on a voyage returning from troy to his homeland where he is believed to have died.