CLA204H5 Chapter 2: Chapter 2
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Cla204- chapter 2: the cultural context of classical myth. Greek civilization developed in the small, isolated plains, which are the only places in greece suitable for agriculture and they are between the mountains and the sea. The plain of boeotia in which the principle settlement in ancient times was the city of thebes. The plain of attica, has athens as its capital. Peloponnesus is connected to the mainland by a thread of land called the isthmus which are other cultivable plains. Argolis in the bronze age had tiryns and mycenae as its principal settlements and then, in the classical period, the city of. Laconia or lacedaemon, is the territory around the town of sparta. Messenia lies across high mountains to the west, w. important settlement of pylos and north of this lies the plain of elis, site of the olympic games. Resources (gold, silver, iron, tin) were very limited.
