CLA 1101 Lecture 8: outline8.doc

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

Document Summary

Iota is for ionia (and units 1- 4: part of acrophonic number system. Lba were lost: end of civilization, no writing, no new monumental buildings, end of pictorial art (no more frescos and painting pottery, = dark age = cultural/economic regression. Early dark age (1100-900 bce) technology demographics: political organization, type of habitation. 1. new metal (iron but no more bronze because trade routes are disrupted) 2. no tech to smelt iron so have to use a forge (heated and beat) 2. over time, new sites built and old site rehabilitated: political organization. 3. chief official is equivalent of mayor: habitation: megaron + apse. 1. looks like a megaron but with curved back wall. 5. back round room used fro storage: nichoria (largest house found in one of the villages) ), tantalus: tantalus: mythical founder of smyrna (cursed to not eat or drink, (900-600 bce, fortified, on the sea, streets placed out in a regular plan, home town of homer, pottery reveals history!