ARH 2050 Chapter 4: ARH2050 Chapter 4 - Art of the Ancient Aegean
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Chapter 4 art of the ancient aegean. Until the late 19th century the stories, names, places, treasures, and accounts of terrific battles des(cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:271)ed i(cid:374) ho(cid:373)e(cid:396)(cid:859)s epi(cid:272) poe(cid:373)s the iliad a(cid:374)d the odyssey (cid:449)e(cid:396)e thought to (cid:271)e (cid:373)ostly fi(cid:272)tio(cid:374)al. The odyssey, compiled around the same time as the iliad, tells the story of the greek warrior odysseus, o(cid:374)e of aga(cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:374)o(cid:374)(cid:859)s ge(cid:374)e(cid:396)als at the t(cid:396)oja(cid:374) (cid:449)a(cid:396), a(cid:374)d his te(cid:374)-year journey home to ithaca, after the fall of troy. So in 1870, using his own money, he began work at a site in turkey called hissarlik, believing that it was the site of ancient troy. A british archaeologist, frank calvert, was already digging near there but had found nothing. The site yielded many treasures including the foundations of a great walled city destroyed by fire in the 13th century bce. Scholars now agree that this was the site of ancient troy.
