HIST 3150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Lefkandi, Sea Peoples, Polis
Document Summary
1200-1150 transiion from the bronze age to the iron age. End of the mycenaean way of life associated with the palaces. Increasing regionalism and lack of contact with the outside world. Local communiies controlled by chiefs who maintained signiicant inluence in their lifeime and may have lived in great houses at lekandi and thermon. There was a populaion in athens in the dark ages but other communiies in other areas grow more. Polis (plural poleis) was the greek word for town or city. Grew to have a disinct poliical meaning with reference to the surround countryside united as a single poliical enity or city- state. Thucydides 7. 77: men are the polis, not walls or ships empty of men . The city-state was an idea, the equivalent of a paricularly intense communal or corporate spirit . Jefrey m. hurwit the art and culture of early greece.
