CLAA06H3 Lecture : Lecture 1 Notes
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Acient myth i i- greece and rome- lecture 1. A brief i nt roduction to ancient greece. Mountainous and dry landscape : rocky, hilly, not a lot of grass. Rivers too narrow to navigate by boat. Goats, sheep, pigs; cows are rare due to lack of pastureland; horses rare and prestigious-> had to have the best kind of land to keep the horse. Peloponnesus (a peninsula) with several regions-achaea, elis, arcadia< argolis, messsenia, laconia. Euboea an island east of the mainland etc. natural resources of greece. > all rooms in these palaces centred around courtyard. > centers of power-> commercial and distribution center. King -> areas around them ruled by kings-> either religiously or military. Didn"t have letters-> pictures that symbolized the words. > common-> bull; power-> devil acts; religious symbol. 2100 bce-> major destruction all over greece-> new people migrating from central asia-> indo europeans.