HUM 2 Lecture 6: Humanities 2 - Culture of Ancient Greece and Rome - 6
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At beginning of archaic period, near east contact resumes. Phoenicians were great traders of the world. Greek literacy resumed with alphabet borrowed from phoenicians. Linear b was a syllabary, not an alphabet. Letter names in greek mean nothing while in punic they have meanings. Most literate society was athens during classical period, where the most. Right to left, then left to right, then right to left etc. People are scratching messages on random things. One of the first items with greek alphabetic writing on it. So large that only nestor could lift it (cup from iliad), this was not the same cup. I am the cup of nestor, i am good to drink from. Anyone who drinks from it, the but refers to it desire of fair-crowned aphrodite will seize him . Southern italy and sicily were most heavily colonized areas. Greek colony was independent politically of mother city, it was a new polis.
