Classical Studies 2300 Midterm: Classics 2300 First Midterm Exam Notes
22 Nov 2017
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In all of the events that are being discussed in the first half of the course will be bce (before christ) Know how to put events in chronological order. Know the ages of greek history bronze, dark, archaic ages all in bce: go over notes from classics 2500 on dates and the historic events that occurred in the eras. 490 a shift occurred because of the persian invasion. Incidental greeks took the time to preserve literary documents and writing: evidence for athletics will be incidental and be found in literary sources. Aristocratic men: was mostly the product of men, women were rarely educated or literate, men of leisure = wealthy men that had time to document, primary source of literary evidence, often subjective. Fragment when someone writes about an athlete and their background: criminals were not allowed to compete in athletic events. Pottery begins to depict images of athletic events.
