CLAS 201- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 35 pages long!)

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS201
• Professor: Ronald Kroeker

Document Summary

Balcan peninsula jets out into mederanean sea near italy. Greoi was the first tribes romans ran into and the only tribe to call themselves greeks. Other than them, greeks called themselves hellenes and called greece hellas. Know where peloponnesus is on the map. It"s where spart dominated and where olympia and argos are. Attica is region where territory of athens was. Greek states were very small but athens grew larger. People from here fought with athenians and later. Peloponnesus + attica + boeotia + thessaly = greece proper. Ionia and aegean islands are grouped together because they had a common culture. Located on west coast of modern day turkey. Ionia was next to non- greeks, and these people were more advanced than the greeks culturally, so there were a lot of intellectual people there. This was the origin for literature, philosophy etc.