GRST 321 Lecture 3: September 18

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Greek and Roman Studies
• Course: GRST 321
• Professor: Lesley Bolton

Document Summary

Mesopotamia: 3500bce: means between the rivers, mesopotamian temple-city, bordered by the euphrates and tigris rivers. Egypt 2800bce (marginally later than mesopotamia: another huge influence is the river nile, pyramid complex and giza. Greece and the aegean: considerably later in the bronze age (1800bce/1600bce, minoan palace of knossos, crete. Was totally undefended because they were surrounded by the sea and became a prominent trading force: fortified mycenean citadel (mycenae), greece, subject to attack because it was on mainland greece. The fortifications often take the form of walls. City/town is often on a high point of the landscape. Troy trojan war: close to the coast, not a high point, mixture of myth and history, excavated by heinrich schliemann and sophia. Heinrich also excavated mycenae: sophia was his second wife, she was greek. He was around 47, she was 17 when they married. She is famously shown wearing the jewels of helen (helen of troy), they were dug up in the excavation.