CLA 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Panhellenic Games, Precious Metal, Olive Oil
10 Dec 2014
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Reading: c/f 68-69; 154-159, 162 (oracle of apollo) See evernote!! go during office hours to pick up short answer part. Lambda is for lekythos: pottery, holds olive oil, made as a dedication to the dead. Expansion of the greek world : colonies, migrations and colonisation, put greeks in contact with people who didn"t speak greek and didn"t have the same cultures, didn"t divide the greeks, expansions reinforced greek, adapted many ideas. Panhellenism: pan = all (hellenes, origin, definition, sense of greekness , reinforced w/ religious festivals, unified geographically - divided greeks, featured athletics. Panhellenic festivals: origins of athletic competition, patroklos, achilles (p. 154, funeral rites, phoenician custom, iliad: achilles holds games for patrokolos (bff) 183 m (longest stadium in all ones used because layed out: athletic field outside wall of the sanctuary gymnasium (practice and train) Stadium (running) by heracles who had big feet) altar to demeter on side of stadium.
