AR225 Lecture 3: AR225 Lesson 3
24 May 2017
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Dark age greece: a period of transient settlement patterns and cultural regression that occurred in the wake of the destruction of mycenean society. Archaic period: time of trade and colonization, population increases, connections with the near. Name based on style of pottery produced during this period. Fast potter"s wheel lost in cultural regression, used again around 900 bce. Homeric epics often conserved on the material culture (e. g. ceramic painting) of the late dark. There are no historical documents from the dark age period, though later historians provide their account. Works by homer and hesiod (another poet), producers of the earliest greek literature, can be useful in providing details about the dark age. Milman perry, alfred lord, and the theory of oral composition. Never told the same way twice: fieldwork in yugoslavia, where this method is still used. Homer"s odyssey includes a bard telling the story, as if homer were describing his own profession.
