Classical Studies 1000 Chapter 1: Pomeroy 14-22

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Bernd Steinbock

Document Summary

Chapter one: early greece and the bronze age. German business man turned archaeology, heinrich schliemann took the accounts of troy and the trojan war as truth and did 2 excavations (~1871) proving the city underneath and the burial sites of the. Rules of the time agamemnon, although cant be for certain it was his, the burials were filled with gold. Sir arthur evans in 1900 discovered cnossus (a palace?) on the island of crete. Greek recorded history began in 1582 bc when an anonymous greek historian living on paros claimed. Humans had lived in greece for at least the last 40,000 years (old stone age); lived by hunting, gathering and building simple things. After the ice age the climate of greece skyrocketed immensely causing the kind of land & vegetation that"s still the same today. Egalitarian: "believe that all people are equally important and should have the same rights and opportunities in life" dictionary. cambridge.