Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Bronze Age, Iron Ore, Oral Poetry

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Bernd Steinbock

Document Summary

Homer as a source for the bronze age. Bards- would preform poems that were around 20,000 lines. No 2 poems were exactly the same, various "building blocks" and created stories. Hittie empire (13th century bc: hittie archives confirm homers historical backdrop, hitties mention greeks in their sources, along with troy, paris (ruler of troy) "the trojan war: troy was an important bronze age city, since it was located just before entrance of black sea (think of like gas station before highway) System collapse theory: remove one variable everything collapses. Bronze age, they relied heavily on bronze take tin away (which is used to make bronze) and everything goes downhill.