CLA 2323 Lecture 2: Lecture notes of Sept 19

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 2323
• Professor: David Sacks

Document Summary

See on virtual campus the posted memos the aegean mother goddess , timeline of early greek history , minoans versus mycenaeans , and the sept. 12 printed lecture notes. We began on the 19th by continuing our historical narrative of bronze age greece, from sept. 12. We opened with about the year 1600 b. c. , with the grand but warlike mycenaean civilization. Greek civilization, the first blossoming of the greeks. Background, from sept. 12: between 2100 and 1600 b. c. , the two peoples of greece (1) the indigenous, non-greek inhabitants and (2) the invading, early-greek-speaking indo-europeans merged gradually into one greek-speaking population. As stated repeatedly in our course, the mycenaeans were greeks. Our buxton textbook unfortunately omits almost all reference to the mycenaeans: just photo captions at pp. But your prof believes that we cannot really understand greek mythology without understanding the fact of there having been a mycenaean civilization.