[GRS 200] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (20 pages long!)

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How myths are told affect what myths are told and what myths are passed down: one bard and his lyre can sing about 1000s of people over 100s of years. Homer"s odyssey and iliad: greek tragedies had 3 speaking parts and a chorus. Only written records are linear b tablets lists of inventory of palace. No stories from mycenaean greece, but tablets have some names that show up in. All myths are set in middle bronze age. Minoans wrote in linear a yet to be translated. Greeks adapted linear a to their own language linear b. Linear b tablets show names of gods and human heroes continuity of culture. About the same time as troy fell, so did mycenaean civilization and almost everything else around the eastern mediterranean: waves of migrations and invasions, drought. Art of writing was lost: except linear b was maintained on cyprus (mycenaean aristocrat escaped?) Greek settlements throughout aegean islands, black sea, coast of asia minor.

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