HIST 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: South Aegean, Ugarit, Ramesses Iii
Document Summary
The bronze age and it"s people and places. Troy was a bronze age site, known for the trojan war, on asia minor. It was described in the iliad of homer. He was also credited for the odyssey, and related the voyage home of one of the greek heroes home of the trojan war. The iliad comes from the other name for troy, ilium. Peloponnesus denotes southern greece, south of the so called isthmus of corinth, a narrow land bridge connecting the. Corinth, mycene, and sparta are in this area. Attika was a triangle of land where athens is located. To the ne of this, there is the island of euboea. As you move north in ancient greece, you enter upon less centralized governments. The city states were confined to southern greece. As you move north, there are more kingdoms, like macedonia. Macedonia was valued by the southern greeks for mineral resources, and timber.
