CLA230H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ancient Greek, Geometric Art
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A secondary souce is something about the ancient world written by the modern world. Primary souces are pieces of information that come to us directly from ancient greece, they are texts from the ancient historians. Epigraphic sources are written texts that are enscribed in stones, these are alsp primary sources. Greece is in the mediterranian, the eastern meditteranian. The entire peninsula of greece is a massive mountainous range. The greeks always settled within a days walk from the sea. 90% of the greeks would live within a 1 days walk from the ocean. The island name means the island of pelops. The isnald is named after a mythical man named pelops. Its only connected to the mainland at a very narrow point. The argilades is a s(cid:373)all plot o fertile la(cid:374)d, perfe(cid:272)t for fa(cid:373)ri(cid:374)g, that"s surrou(cid:374)ded (cid:271)y the o(cid:272)ea(cid:374) a(cid:374)d (cid:373)ou(cid:374)tai(cid:374)s. Thessaly is also very fertile land, and it was a great place to raise horses.
