CLAA06H3 Chapter 2: Chapter 2.docx
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Chapter 2 cultural content of classical myth. Greek geography: poor, 1million people, horses were high value, limestone marble, sculptures (euboea) and clay pots, myths, burials (athens and corinth, aegean sea fish, transport. Greek society: bronze/iron linear b, archaic poems of homer and hesoid, classical we know more from tragedies and literary works. Males: free males (25000/200000 pop. , citizens of polis, educated, athletic, no forgiveness for failure, symposium drinking party with prostitutes, pedagogue trainer of boys to read write and memorize poems (age. Boy to die in war, girl to carry family line, girl to form interfamily alliances. Other children are abandoned: men get together for ginantic civic symposium, the festival of. Slavery: or 1/3 of workforce, sometimes captured from war, wealthy could afford them, sometimes paid salaries and work way out of slavery. Greece and rome: romans remade greek image and passed it on to europeans, roman period (from 30 bc) when egypt fell to the hellenistic.
