[CLASS102] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 31 pages long Study Guide!
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Pervasive: 1/4 of the work force in greece, considered normal, manual labor, personal service, art, literature. Lauren silver mines: where most money came from: wealth that the athens were able to create were on the backs of people who were down at the mine. Roman world was more important than greek cuz of the social class: roman freedmen : politically important cuz could vote. Roman variations of greek myth: take greek gods and change them to their way of life. Roman period in greece (30 bc - 1453 ad) Started of monarchy > roman republic roman empire > monarchy. Didn"t have many myths (not real relationships with gods), the myths they do have were adopted from greece. Archaic period (800-490: homer writes about epic (legend, stories of the great heroes) Occupation: farmer (real or just a set up to write poems about it?) Homeric hymns: deigned to be performed publicly for god. Classical period (490-323 c: tragedy (athens)