GRST 205 Lecture 3: GRST 205 LEC 3

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Greek and Roman Studies
• Course: GRST 205
• Professor: Colin Ash

Document Summary

Grst 205 lecture 3 (january 17th) out of the dark ages, the rise of the polis . Bronze age ended with the fall of palaces across greece. Dark ages: 1100 800/700 bce: featured evidence of cultural development in greece, but also influence from far away (asia minor and italy) Different locations developed different answers to common problems. See the loss of writing, decorated ceramics, ivory and precious metal working, sculpture, wall paintings: essentially the loss of the sophisticated achievements of the bronxe age. Also see innovations: cremation and iron working: cremation: potentially arose in athens in response to the catastrophic end of the. Bronze age, but potentially an import of people moving into the region at the end of the bronze age. The destruction of palaces which were previously the centre of social systems led to a drastic change in the structure of these systems: controlled by land owning aristocracies.