HUMA 1100 Lecture : HUMA 1100.docx
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The roots of greek culture, history and literature. Alphabet: 24 letters, starting with ( ) alpha and ending with ( ) omega. **alphabets are important because it allowed them to writer as well as speak** Exegesis is a greek term meaning critical explanation, analysis. Physis: emotional, weak, irrational (women are usually represented as this) Most of the stories are based on myth. Polytheism: the belief of more than on god. The mycenaean period, which is also referred to as the late bronze age, witnessed the peak of greek economic and social development. Discovered in 1939, the palace of mycenaean kind. Nestor was excavated by carl blegen and hundreds of tablet in the ancient linear b script were found. Olive oil jugs and different types of vases were found in this picturesque place. In this period, the trojan war occurred, but around 11100 mycenaean culture startedto collapse and the dark age started in greece.
