CLAS 1000 Chapter 1-2: CLAS 1000 Ancient Greece Chapter 1-2: Chapter 1: The Birth of Philosophy and the Persian Wars, Chapter 2: Iron Age Greece & Chapter 3: The Poems of Hesiod and Homer

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 1000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

Chapter #1 the greeks and the bronze age: Introduction: the bronze age, 3000 to 1200 bc, marks for the beginning of greek civilization. Cycladic civilization: arose around 3200 bc around the time of the transition from the neolithic period (the new. The greeks speak up: historians refer to the period that immediately succeeded the minoan as the mycenaean. Linear b was a script that derived from linear a, and is, therefore, its lineal descendant: linear b tablets represent the earliest evidence in written form of the greek language. The emergence of mycenaean civilization: mycenaean civilization developed within the context of, and shows the pervasive influence of, the minoan civilization that it supplanted. It"s been made clear that those at the upper levels of mycenaean society went to extraordinary lengths to distinguish themselves from the rest. Week #1 january 5th-9th, 2015: many theories have been developed to account for the darkness that fell upon the.