CLA 1101 Lecture 14: Lecture 14
7 Mar 2017
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(cid:894)pi(cid:895) is for pythia & pente. Pythia: priestess, (cid:862)mediu(cid:373)(cid:863) through (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h you got ad(cid:448)i(cid:272)e fro(cid:373) the ora(cid:272)le of apollo at. Pi is an acrophonic number: stands for pente = 5 (ex. Pentathlon 5 events: google what pente looks like and how it works. Expansions of the greek world: eda migrations. Euboia: emerges from da recession: age of colonization. Went beyond to include western mediterranean, areas around black sea, coast of. Italy + sicily = called the magna graecia. Greater greece because there were so many colonies there. Island off the coast of the bay of naples. Colonized here because they had copper mines and a good supply of iron. Pithekoussai (cid:449)as the (cid:862)(cid:373)iddle (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:863) for trade (cid:449)ith the rest of europe a(cid:374)d mediterra(cid:374)ea(cid:374) Island site was a good site for a colony be(cid:272)ause it"s easy to defe(cid:374)d. Vesuvius = surrounding area therefore has good agricultural land.
