CLST 129 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Tiryns, Crimean War, Hisarlik
6 Sep 2016
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Lecture 11, 12 schliemann i: early year, the search for troy begins & schliemann ii october 6 th and 8th. Was a business man who took up archeology as a hobby. Discovered greek bronze age (era of greek history from 3300-1100 b. c. e. that nobody knew exists) He dug a number of sites: troy, mycenae, tiryns . In 19th c. classicists studied great authors aeschylus, sophocles, etc. and great architecture . Studied what was available to them at the time. Homer one such author: iliad (epic poem, fiction, story about troy), odyssey (takes place after the. Trojan war has finished, odysseus" journey home) (paris, helen (menelaus wife), achilles, Agamemnon (greek king), menelaus (greek king), patroclus, odysseus (greek king), hector (major. All knew that troy wasn"t a real place (classicists believed that this was all just a story. Works fiction schliemann proved classicists wrong! (he proved that there was a place called troy, a war happened, etc. )
