Classical Studies 2300 Midterm: Midterm 1 Lecture Notes.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2300
• Professor: David Lamari

Document Summary

Survey of greek history and greek sources of evidence. Ages of greek history: 3000-1200 bc: minoans/mycenaeans, 1200- 750 bc: dark age, 750- 480 bc: archaic age, 480- 323 bc: the classical age, 323- 30 bc: the hellenistic age. Palace cultures (bronze age: 3000-1200bc, minoan and mycenaean civilizations, no literature survives, destroyed c. 1200bc, only known folk tales now. Dark age (iron age: homer sang songs about old kings but got a lot of the facts wrong, set in the bronze age, homer (1200-750 bc) Archaic age: archaic means early, beginning of the greek culture. Art, olympics, language etc: polis populated by independent cities (had their own coins, education system etc. ) Had limited contact between these cities: colonization 750-550. Greece began to flourish however farm land was bad so they started kicking people off the land. These people began scattering around the mediterranean and found places with good farm land.