greece

basileus

king/cheif

demos

the people

hetaroi

king’s companions

boule

council of elders

agora

public space

elders

made decisions

agathos

good brave soldiers

kakos

cowardly soldiers

aristos

the best, noble etc.

agon

contest

franchthi cave

continuously inhabited from 20k-3k BCE

olympics founded

776 BCE

Parian Marble

first historical writing, 1582

Mediterranean triad

grain, grapes, olives

Dimini village

first sign of urbanization

Minoan civilization where

crete

Minoan palaces

knossos, zakros, mallia

Excavated Minoa

Evans

Language of Mycenaeans

Linear B

Who deciphered Linear B

Michael Ventris

Who excavated Mycenae

Schliemann

Linear A + B tablets mostly found in

Pylos

Found in circle a

mask of agnamemnon

found in circle b

local and imported artifacts

griffin warrior tomb

75% objects were Minoan

tholos tomb

beehive, cut into hillside

lion gate

Mycenae

works and days author

hesiod

iliad, odyssey

homer

protogeometric

very simple

geometric

a little more complex

late geometric

very complex, people and animals, scenes

Lefkandi

burial shaft: male and female remains

Who came up with oral poetry

perry and lord

oikos

house

kleros

to have land

thales

water + eclipses

anaxagoras

mind controls all

heraclitus

harmony of opposites

Pierre de Coubertin
pythagoras

transmigration of souls

parmenides

reality of the world is one being

archaic age pottery styles

black figure and red figure

hoplites

heavily armed soldiers

kouros

youth

kore

maiden