CLA219H1 Midterm: CLA219H1 Midterm 1 Review
Document Summary
Actium: battle of actium, augusts > mark antony. Myth hymn: songs and praises iambic poetry: obscene humor type poetry, rooted from iambe. Artifacts (statues, etc) (ideal of female beauty) Try to grasp what they thought of women, and try to grasp what women thought of themselves at same time. 500-323 bc (death of alexander the great antiquity covers a period of over a millennium) 146 bc (rome becomes the new political power and greece becomes a province) 500 - mid-first century bc 500bc (monarchy overthrown in 509 bc; civil wars in 1st cent. Illiad and odyssey fundamental to antiquity, lays out beliefs and interactions of gods. Classics is something great even past its generation (i. e. illiad + odyssey), works of the mediterranean period of the ancient. Battle of actium 31 bc - decisive battle, mark antony (in love w/ cleopatra) defeated by octavius (augustus) Romans looked to greece for its culture, but political and military power resides in rome.
