CLA160H1 Lecture : Ancient Greek Archaeology
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Now, we"re starting off here looking at parts of the iliad apparently to get some idea of. Early greek politics, i dunno, seems kind of a non-sequitur anyways, some minor character called thersites is insulting agamemnon, calling him greedy and unintelligent and so forth (and is promptly shut down by odysseus). Apparently we"ll be comparing and contrasting the reality of troy and the fable of it. But, we"re going to go back to where we were last time, to syncretism, the joining of the identities of demeter and isis (the readings apparently were commentaries on this by. Myceneans were aware of the egyptians, and the egyptians were willing to have some level of diplomacy and trade with them. The greeks were also quite aware that their civilization was thousands of years older than theirs, and of course eventually it was conquered by both alexander the great and later the roman empire.
