Ancient Greek Civ

Attic

comes from Attica

the countryside around Athens

poor land, olive trees, silver mines

Sappho

-poet of love

-lesbian

-from Mytilene, Lesbos

-c. 630-570

-getting old as her children appear to be getting younger

-myth of Tithonus used to make her feel better about aging (Dawn and Tithonus)

Alcaeus

-from Mytilene in Lesbos

-c. 630-570

-loved drinking parties (symposia)

-look for cicadas, artichokes, and the different seasons (always a good time to drink)

Herodotus

-first historian

-both rationalist and pious traditionalist

-wide interests

-focused on Greeks vs. Persians

-no system of chronology

Homer

-focuses on the Gods/Greek mythology

-Trojan War

-uses epithets

Hesiod

Arete

excellence/success

time

honor, the heroic coe

geras

prize, confers time

Hesiod

-from Ascra, Boeotia

-unhappy farmer

-epic poetry, hexamter, narrative, calls upon the Muses

-Theogony: birth of the Gods

• the first sacrifice, how Zeus was cheated by Prometheus

• how the world was created and how Zeus gained power

-Works and Days: advice poem, justice, strife

• advice for farmers

• Prometheus and Pandora

• Perses (Hesiod’s brother) tries to cheat him out of their family inheritance

-discusses why life is so hard

• the difference between the two Eris one is strife and one is competition

Thucydides

Fertile Crescent

Neolithic Revolution

secondary products revolution

Early Bronze Age

Lerna

House of Tiles

Cycladic figures

Middle Bronze Age

Indo-European

proto-Indo-European

Cnossus

Minos

Minoan

Minotaur

primary sources

secondary sources

Second Palace Period

Linear A

redistributive centers

thalassocracy

Akrotiri

Mycenae

Grace Circle A

Pylos

Late Bronze Age

Mycenaean

Assyria

Argos

Lefkandi

Euboea

basileus

Protogeometric

Olympia

Pithekoussai

Messenia

dike

hekatompeda

Late Geometric style

Greek alphabet

Homeric Question

Frierdrich August Wolf

dactylic hexameter

Heinrich Schliemann

shame cultures

guilt cultures

time

geras

plot-point

mythos

divine myths

legends

folktale

Chaos

Gaea

Eros

Cronus

Titans

Furies

anthropomorphic

evolutionary religion

revealed religion

Fate

Olympians

Muses

Zeus

Hera

Athena

Apollo

Artemis

Poseidon

Aphrodite

oligarchy

agathoi

kakoi

demos

talents

hoplite

phalanx

symposium

andron

Theognis

Olympia

Pan-Hellenic games

gynmasia

pankration

Pindar

tyrant

ostracism

Herodotus