CLA260H1 Final: FINAL EXAM REVIEW FOR METHOD AND THEORY OF CLASSICS.docx
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Final exam review for method and theory of classics. Bronze age: c. 3000 c. 1200 b. c. Iron (or dark) age: c. 1200 c. 800 b. c. Archaic period: c. 800 c. 480 b. c. Classical period: c. 480 c. 323 b. c. Hellenistic period begins with the death of alexander the great. Iron age: c. 900 c. 750 b. c. e. Roman republic: c. 500 c. 31 b. c. e. Late antiquity: roughly the 4th 7th c. c. e. Rome expulses their kings and forms the republic. Classical archaeology definition more problematic (historical reasons) Sub-discipline of classics + archaeology (complicated relationship) (greek about 100 bc, roman 200 bc to 500 ad) Classical deals with material culture of civilizations that are familiar through elite literary culture. Many cultures not literate, not produce texts that survive in great numbers (as in. Other literate cultures are not well + known through literary output rather than prosaic documentary records (as in medieval england)
