CLA 1101 Lecture 3: outline3.doc

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 1101
• Professor: Heather Loube

Document Summary

Reading: c/f 30-35, early greece part ii (blackboard) Delta is for dimini and deka. Dimini late neolithic village in thessaly, distinguished by its megaron. = 20 acrophonic number system (acro-first sound of number, phonic sound) Chalko copper (started metallurgy) lithic- stone working with metal and stone. 2/5 criteria for civilization now achieved (missing tms) Prometheus: takes credit for introducing metallurgy to the greeks. Alloy of copper and tin or copper and arsenic. Better tools, weapons, displays of wealth (except for obsidian because it is stronger and makes better cutting edge) No tin or arsenic in hellas so they got it by trade! (copper mostly came form cyprus and tin mostly came from spain and england) Early bronze age (eba) 3000 - 2000 bce (eba) p. 30-1: mainland: early helladic (eh, cyclades: early cycladic (ec, crete: early minoan (em) 3 eba commonalities: agriculture, metallurgy (bronze, silver and gold, language: aegean", thalassa (-ssos, -ttos, -inthos)