Classical Studies 1000 Lecture 1: LEC 1 NOTES - Classics

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: David Lamari

Document Summary

Can not reuse the clay after it has been heated and hardened. Was worthless to looters and clay is resistant through the years: decorations on clay present a mythological story or a daily event and pots are a good source of information. Connect around an object like a found ring (860bc) and the pots are 20 years earlier perhaps? (840bc) Mediterranean sea: therefore, there was lots of contact with the eastern mediterranean sea. If you had a horse, you were highly seen as wealthy because it costed lots of resources to keep a horse fed and maintained. Chapter 1 early greece and the bronze age: myth of trojan war -> battle between greeks and trojans for a kidnapped queen, war against troy, myth of crete -> an island. His palace/castle he ruled was named cnossos. Thalassocracy -> he also ruled the sea.