CLA260H1 Lecture 1: CLA260 LECTURE 1
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Bronze age 3000-1100bce: archaeological evidence. we have documents in the linear b script. trojan war supposed to have fallen in the late bronze age. evidence from other cultures about greece. Iron age 1100-750bce: complex bureaucracy, these mycenaean palace complexes fall apart. we don"t know a lot about it. lose evidence of literacy, called dark age bc of this. 479 is the end of the persian war. corresponds with changes in artistic style. Classical age 479-323: death of alexander the great. succession of greek kingdoms, egypt to northern india is conquered. Hellenistic age 323-30: ptolemaic empire survives the longest. successor kingdoms of alexander. Ancient epic de ned by its meter. dactylic hexameter. The greeks would have epic poetry performed. an oral medium. accompanied by phorminx, a kind of lyre. a string instrument. Iliad a story of greek princes who cross aegean sea and wage a 10 year war on troy ultimately defeating it and destroying it.
