CLA 1101 Lecture 9: outline9.doc

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

Document Summary

Krater: large bowl for mixing wine and water (greeks always waterdown wine) This one (p. 58) was a grave marker, funeral scene + geometric pattern. The end of the dark age: late dark age (geometric) 900-750 bce, economic recovery, writing returns to hellas, trade routes open again (gold, ivory, bronze (copper+tin), etc. not from hellas, greek artifacts found outside greece. Hesiod:, theogony (short epic: origin of the gods. Inspired by the muses (daughters of memory and zeus) outside influences (non greek monsters and stories, influences from the middle east: hesiod borrows ideas from the other civilizations. Let the shield go; i can buy another one equally as good. Age of colonization = archaic age: 750 - 490 bce. By choice: second period of greek expansion, vs. Pithekoussai & naxos: pithekoussai (monkey island): first colony (in italy, euboia & naxos are the first colonists, fouding colony because want to trade with etruscans, have lots and lots of iron and other.