2301A/B- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 25 pages long!)

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2301A/B
• Professor: Debra Nousek

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C l a s s i c a l s t u d i e s 2 3 0 1 a / b. Claudius pulcher used the sacred chickens to see if the gods favored an attack on the carthaginian fleet. If they eat, it meant the gods favored the(cid:373). O(cid:373)eti(cid:373)es they (cid:449)ould(cid:374)"t eat because they were seasick from being on a boat. Upon returning to his city, he was tried and ended up not being convicted because a storm interrupted his trial. In rome, parricide was sometimes punished by the culleus, or (cid:862)sa(cid:272)k. (cid:863). 284-746 ce: the franchthi cave in the. Peloponnesus was inhabited continuously from about 20,000 to 3000 bce: the first evidence of agriculture and the domestication of animals at the cave dates to about 6000. Bce: minoan civilization was remarkably advanced, but we know little about it, the language of crete during the. Early and middle bronze ages was not greek, and their gods were not.