CLASSICS 1M03 Lecture 3: Dark Age Sources
16 Jan 2017
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Dark age sources: little material sources until 900 bce, homer: iliad and odyssey (7th century bce?, epic poems, (omer"s own age, hesiod: works and days. Disruption vs continuity: on the one hand. (population decline, demise of palace-citadel system, Migrations: on the other hand. (majority of population moves on, greek language, oral culture, three biggest linguistic/tribal groups: Greek dialects/groups: dorian"s (cid:523)doric(cid:524, aeolians (aeolic, ionians (ionic, arcadians (arcadian, early migrations (1050-900 bce) Dark age society: the palace culture did not survive this era (it weeded out, quasireu -> (cid:498)king(cid:499, basileus -> chief of community; lands and animals; )nformal status as (cid:498)big. Persuade through speech in assembly of warriors. Wednesday may 8th, 2013: common assembly was something that took place throughout the iliad. This is important because this supports the social structure of dark age greece rather than the presumed bronze age greece (depicted by physical aspects like armor, weapons, places: agamemnon depicted in the story isn"t a traditional king.
