CLA 2323 Lecture 1: Lecture 1
19 Apr 2020
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Geography of ancient greece: like modern greece, ancient greece is the jagged peninsula at the bottom sticking down into the ne. Ionian sea west, and runs northwest as adriatic sea fertile land: balkan mountains (are now in serbia/bulgaria) going down spine of greece, mountains continue underwater and their tops create islands in the mediterranean. Islands are stepping stones across the sea to island of crete: greeks from earliest time lived and were occupied on and in the sea as mainland was crowded (god of sea. = poseidon) fishermen, traders, navy, pirates: stupid, brutal, unpredictable, aphrodite guardian of sailors, jason and the argonauts, peloponnese (island of pelops) most important location in greek mythology. Intimate approach to earth goddess = gaia/gaea: gods zeus believed to be formed inside a cave, hermes and zoonosis too. Southern france: fresh water was considered sacred and offered to gods, caves at the southern tip of the peloponnese were believed to be an actual entrance to the.
