CLAS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Trojan War, Heinrich Schliemann, Iliad

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

Document Summary

Eruption of thera 1650 bc (island exploded) obliterated crete, caused famine and failure of crops. Linear b replaced linear a as language. Dark age: 1100-800 bc > everything collapsed, declined, excepted in one aspect = weapons. End of dark age marked by return of culture and civilization > olympics 776- Greeks began writing, literacy returned at beginning of archaic period. Wrote stories, one of the first about a great war (homer) War between greek city-states against the city of troy. People believed troy was a myth, only part of the story until heinrich. Schliemann found remains of a great walled city where homer said troy should have been. Evidence found of a great battle (or military event), carbon dating placed it at the same time troy was destroyed. Iliad > story of the trojan war 1200 bc. Written 400 500 years later (orally preserved peom until it was written. Story would have been changed and turned into myth.