CLAS 1P91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pincer Movement, Ephor, Debt Relief
28 Sep 2016
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Main goods traded: pottery, metalwork, cloth, wine; olive oil and specialty food such as honey and cheese, Raw materials for metals, food, luxury good,- eg. purple cloth, spices, perfumes, ivory. (greek vases could be use for olive oil) Greek traders in egypt brought back influences. Science, religion, social ideas, and art and architecture. Monumental temple, architecture with the use of columns. Early greek sculpture used egyptian technique; stance and proportions. Nudity is a costume of greek athletics = competed nude at festivals to show idealized bodies, Kouroi were used as grave markers or votive gifts for gods. Polis, warfare and military innovations (plato: peace is merely a name in truth an undeclared war always exists by nature between each polis. ) Dark age warfare: small skirmishes between villages, bands of men follow chieftain, small fights and raiding. By archaic period grows much larger in scale. Increased population = competition for resources, especially land.
