CLAS 1P91 Lecture 1: Clas 1P91 lecture 1
13 Sep 2016
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Terminology: greece and greeks= (graecae) roman name, hellenes: proper name for greek people, hellas: ancient and modern name for greece, polis: an independent city state, poleis: city states, historical period: 1500-300bc, eastern mediterranean. Ancient hellas: many poleis, mountains divide; but the sea creates easier travel and communications, hellenes share common language, religion and culture (similar people in mainland. Greece: they all started in their own areas, that is why greece was city states and not united. Bronze age past: classical greeks were surrounded by ruins= indicated an earlier civilization- heroic age, today two main cultures are identified. Standing on alters with a minoan style column between them- heads in separate material. Protective or heraldic: this was the citadel of agamemnon king and warrior of the achaean greeks in the. Monumentalized with double row of stone slabs for 6 shaft graves=19 people. 9 female, 8 male, 2 children= wealthy burials.
