CLASSICS 1M03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Scipio Aemilianus, Siege Of Melos, Megabyzus
15 Sep 2016
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Tutorial 1: greece in the heroic and dark ages reading 1a-1b. Page 7: the iliad is the earliest surviving work of european literature, and one of the greatest. Odyssey originally were a part of a cycle of epic poems covering the trojan war). Iliad tells the story of the wrath of achilles, and his quarrel with the leader of the. Achaeans, agamemnon: the homeric poems (homer is the author of the iliad and odyssey) were believed to be fiction until ruins were discovered with items that were described in the poems. However, that though artifacts and places were in the poems (and reflected the bronze. Age), the social world (politics, economics, social conditions, etc. ) reflected conditions that were found in the different eras of the dark age or the greek renaissance. Tutorial 2: tyranny, oligarchy democracy reading 2a-2b, 2d. Herodotus : the tyranny of cypselus: most views upon tyranny back then, and even now, have been a negative one.
