CLA 1101 Lecture 8: LECTURE 8

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

Document Summary

I (iota) is for lonia (area in turkey, but it is greek) it also stands for one unit (number) Bronze age: early, middle, late/helladic (mainland), cycladic (cyclades islands), End of soecial hierarchy (priests, generals, king, etc) End of civilization: no writing, no (new) monumental buildings (poverty, isolation, depopulation) = dark age (because we are in the dark about it, we know very little about it. ) Heroic = lba or mycenaean age (stories about heroes) Early dark age (eda) changes 1100 900 bce: technology. You get a chief of village, the equivalent of a mycanaean mayor. Chief house: nichoria: apsidal end (more so a hut, with a stone foundation and mud brick walls because they are poor) Aeolia: thessaly & boiotia, the coastal inhabitans are pushed mainland by the aeolian. They"re named after the gods of the winds. Ionia: attica & euboia (central of the coast of turkey) The dorians are the greeks who lived in southern pelepponese.