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Introduction to Greek and Roman History. Lecture 1 Before the Polis: Homer and the “Dark Ages”. Luca Asmonti. [email protected] Room 232, Humanities Building Tel. 024 761 50407 Office hours:Monday 3.00-4.00 pm Wednesday, 11.00-12.00 am. Roma Aeterna. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Introduction to Greek and Roman History

Lecture 1

Before the Polis:Homer and the “Dark Ages”

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Luca Asmonti

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Roma Aeterna

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The image of the perfect ruler - I

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The image of the perfect ruler - II

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The seat of authority

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The seat of authority

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What does ancient evidence tell us?

1. A copy of Thucydides

2. A funerary stele from Attica

4. An Attic drinking cup (kylix)

3. Account of expenditure for the organisation of festivals

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The problem with Greek identity

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What was Greek? A map of the Greek world

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Olympic states

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What was Greek? Homer

Homer

•Supposed author of Iliad and Odyssey, set in a semi-mythical “Bronze Age”•If he actually existed as a single individual, flourished between 750-730 B.C.•Wrote in the Ionian dialect

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The Greek world at the time of the Trojan WarThe end of the Bronze Age

Chronology

• 1184 B.C. (Eratosthenes)• 1209/8 B.C. (Parian Marble)

• 1250 B.C. (Herodotus)• 1334/3 B.C. (Douris).

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Heinrich Schliemann, 1822-1890• 1873-1874:Discovered the site of ancient Troy on the hill of Hissarlik (Turkey).• 1876-1877: Discovered the site of ancient Mycenae.

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What we know about the Bronze Age

Mycenae, Lion’s Gate

Mycenae, Agamemnon’s mask

Palace of Cnossos

Palace of Cnossos

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What we know about the Bronze Age: Cnossos

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What we know about the Bronze Age: Mycenae

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What we know about the Bronze Age: Mycenae

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Main centres of the Minoan-Mycenaean world

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What we know about the Bronze Age

Linear A Linear B

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Mycenaean society

• Wanax: “divine lord”; political, military, religious leader.• Lawagetas: leader of the army.• Telestai: “landowners”.• Koretes: governor• Prokoretes: vice-governor.

• Damos: the people.

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The Greek world after the collapse of the palaces

• Social-political system collapses.

• Population decreases.• Linear B disappears.• New form of burial (cremation

instead of inhumation).• Protogeometric pottery.

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The dawn of a new world: Achilles’ shield

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The dawn of a new world: Achilles’ shield


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