CLA 1101 Midterm: notes before 1st midterm.doc

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 1101
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Ancient": bce before common era, bc before christ, bp before present (ex: 2000 bce + 2000 +2011 + 4011 bp) Hesiod"s prehistoric eras: gold (palaeolithic, silver (mesolithic, bronze (bronze, heroic (bronze) Herodotus of halicarnassus the father of history (484 420 bce) Historia : to ask questions: herodotus wanted to know about the past, so he asked questions and wrote down the answers. * the end of the classical era is marked by the death of alexander the great. The end of the hellenistic era is marked by the death of cleopatra, and the takeover by the. Greek": graeci (the name used by for the greeks by the romans, hellenes (the greeks called themselves this, hellene comes from hellen, not helen (of troy, hellen the son of the greek equivalent of noah. The greeks believed that they were all descendants of hellen: the original greeks lived in hellas, believed to be at thessaly.