CLAS 203 Study Guide - For Dummies, Paleolithic, Neolithic

• School: McGill University
• Department: Classics
• Course: CLAS 203
• Professor: Margaret Palczynski

Document Summary

You will be responsible for knowing the following periods, their relative order, the approximate dates and events of importance in each: We know humans inhabited this, but no history or stories. No history from this time due to the lack of the written word. You are responsible for knowing the principle sources of myth from various periods, the authors (if known), the titles and subject matter (in general) of the works we discussed in class. Principle source of myth from the archaic period. Vase paintings thousands of them, many painters, hard to determine where they fit within the story of myth because they depict one frame of the image. Homeric cycles and hymns (subject matter still the trojan war, unknown authors, written in homeric style) Principle sources of myth from the classical period. Rhapsodes (many authors, to be memorized then read aloud)