CLAS202 Lecture 1: Classical Studies 202 Lecture 1
3 Mar 2018
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Literature includes historians, philosophers, letters, speeches, etc: normally written on papyrus, parchment or recopied by monks in middle ages, art and artifacts. Inscriptions: graffito a message scratched or painted on a wall, found on stone or metal, other sources, coins, administrative records found on papyrus or wooden tablets. Early italy: settled by the urnfield culture and vilanovans, pattaline hill had wattle and daub houses (twigs covered with mud, the fossa people buried their dead in trenches, magna graecia southern italy was settled by greeks. Early italy: the etruscans: origin, herodotus claimed the etruscans migrated from near east (turkey) and lived in etruria (north-west italy, language was unknown but they were famed as town planners. The monarchy: the founding of rome (753 510 bce) The troja(cid:374) war (cid:1005)(cid:1005)8(cid:1004)"s bce: aeneas (prince of troy) was the son of anchises, ascanius (lulus) was the king of alba longa: chief city on latian plain, also son of aeneas.
