Classical Studies 1000 Lecture : Archaic Greece

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Shauna Burke

Document Summary

Beginning of dark age - > year 750- find aspects of greek culture flourishing. Phoenician great traders: bringing to greece some cultural rediscoveries to other parts of world. Region: asia minor, greeks called coast: ionia. Pulling greeks into more civilized state ex. cosmology, mathematics. Homer: traditionally from asia minor (or ionia) Rebirth of prosperity ex. grape-sites, population growing (settlements getting larger) Overpopulation- too many people on main greek portion of world. Ways of colonization: expanding empire, taking over other cultures/land. Suitable place found, suitable people told to leave as independent entity. Pan-hellinism: (hellen=greeks call themselves this, not greeks) aspect culture that all greeks partook in. > olympics: festival to which all greeks are invited. > oracle at delphi (inspired by apollo): meet one another, experience other greek communities. Polis: institution in which almost all greeks lived (beginning of dark age-alexander the great) Greeks thought we live in polis, therefore, we"re free, other people who don"t live in polis are barbaric".