CLCIV 101 Final: CLCIV exam review

• School: U of M
• Department: Classical Civilization
• Course: CLCIV 101
• Professor: Francesca Schironi

Document Summary

Bronze age: minoans in the island of crete; cnossus" palace; linear a = not greek, mycenaeans in mainland greece; main places (mycenae, pylos, tiryns); linear b = Dark ages: collapse and decline, no writing, 750-700 bc: eight century renaissance, greek alphabet (800 bc) Not related to linear b but to the phoenician alphabet. 22 phoenician consonants for greek consonants & vowels (+ 3 new signs) It is a phonetic alphabet: greek is a language (linear b and greek alphabet are writing systems) Bronze age helps us understand homer, yet some features of the iliad reflect an earlier period. The iliad: iliad: focus on the quarrel between agamemnon and achilles in the 10th year of war, topic of the poem: the wrath/rage (me nis) of achilles (first word of the poem!) Heinrich schliemann discovers troy in 1870 around the hill of hissarlik in turkey. Time = honor: the most important value for a homeric hero.