AHCL 2301H- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 14 pages long!)

• School: Trent University
• Department: Ancient Greek & Roman Studies
• Course: AHCL 2301H
• Professor: George Kovacs

Document Summary

Literacy in antiquity founded on activity of reader (cid:498)literacy hypothesis(cid:499): havlock (cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:890)(cid:884), p. 4(cid:882) Placed in general circulation self-aware evaluation of past beliefs/events/people etc. critique: too black and white, not generalizable, non-conclusive. Tablet: bronze age, linear b language (proto-greek) Literacy level at most 10% (ancient rome) of population were literate. Ostraka 472-471 bce; used to vote (museum of ancient angoria) Decree of the athenian boul (council) marble st l (440-425 bce: no syntax rules until 3rd century bce. Prytany list, phlya deme athens, 2nd century. Sea merchants, alphabet was ancestor to greek alphabet. Athens and sparta: thucidides: history of peloponnesian wars, athens dominates. Hellenistic period (323-31 bce: generals fought each other, splits up empire. 323 bce: death of alexander the great: city of alexandria trumps athens. From aegean sea; paros (birth place) and thasos. Gyges king of lydia (wealthy and luxurious) fr. 19: 687 652 bce, established arch and gyges is current. 122; directly in response to eclipse (648 bce)