[CLA1101] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (25 pages long!)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 1101
• Professor: Heather Loube

Document Summary

Stone ages (40 000 3 000 bce) Bronze ages (3 000 1 100 bce) Gold silver bronze heroic iron (farther back in time, the better it was) Historia: one who asks questions (ex why are greeks and persians at war) Graeci roman names for the greeks. Hellenes true, self-proclaimed name of the greeks. Believed to be descendants of hellen (son of deukalion and pyrral) Deukalion and pyrral are the similar idea to noah"s ark. Pyrrha first woman of the greeks. The seas are used as mythical voyages, communication routes and climate moderators. Marginal land was used for olives and grapes. Silver, gold and iron was available but no copper or tin. Metallurgy (ability to work with gold, silver and bronze) Credited for teaching hellens the construct of civilization. Gave hellens fire (cid:505) alpha is for the acropolis at athens (cid:506) beta is for boustrophedon (as the ox plows) Alphabet (see blackboard learn for the whole alphabet!)