CLA160H1 Final: CLA363 Exam Review
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People/places/concepts/events (some of these can be found within the reading. Homeric question: debate over the existence of homer. A golden mixing cup, described in homer"s iliad, belonging to nestor, the king of pylos. A golden goblet, found at mycenae, which the excavator, heinrich schliemann, identified as the cup of nestor described in the iliad. A clay drinking vessel of the 8th century bc found at pithekoussai, which bears a famous inscription calling itself nestor"s cup. Dorian invasion: the dorians, a greek-speaking population from northern greece, migrated into the peloponnese and overran the mycenaeans. Both apollodorus and thucydides agree that the descendants of the peloponesse are of the heraclids. Cleisthenes: tyrant of sicyon, was the grandfather of cleisthenes, the athenian democratic reformer. Supposedly, he changed sicyon"s tribal names to distance himself from other dorian states. Writing about 100 years after homer in the early archaic period. Some of his stuff is very vulgar and personal.
