The Forming of Greek Civilization

1. The Forming of Greek Civilization Chapter 2

2. Crete and Early Greece (ca. 3000-1100 B.C.) • A. Cretan Civilization • Knossos • 1.King Minos and His Palace • Sir Arthur Evans • Palace of Minos • 2. Cretan Society and the Roles of Women • Great Mother

4. Map 2.1 Early Greece during the Bronze Age, ca. 2000-1100 B.C.

5. Crete and Early Greece (ca. 3000-1100 B.C.) • A. Cretan Civilization • 3. A Cretan Empire? • B.Crete and the Greeks • 1. Cretan Writing • Linear A • Linear B • Michael Ventris

6. Crete and Early Greece (ca. 3000-1100 B.C.) • B. Crete and the Greeks • 2.The Collapse of Cretan Civilization • Thera or Santorini earthquake

7. Crete and Early Greece (ca. 3000-1100 B.C.) • C. Mycenaean Civilization • (ca. 1600-1100 B.C.) • 1.The City of Mycenae • 2. The Work of Heinrich Schliemann • The graves at Mycenae

8. Crete and Early Greece (ca. 3000-1100 B.C.) • C. Mycenaean Civilization • (ca. 1600-1100 B.C.) • 3. The Zenith of Mycenaean Power and the Trojan War • Treasury of Atreus • Agamemnon • Troy • Homer’s Iliad

9. Map2.2 Mycenae

10. Crete and Early Greece (ca. 3000-1100 B.C.) • C. Mycenaean Civilization • (ca. 1600-1100 B.C.) • 4. The Troy of Homer • 5. The Decline of Mycenae • Sea-peoples • Dorian Greeks • 6. The Dark Age

11. Map2.3 Archaic & Classical Greece, ca. 88-400 B.C.

12. II. The Greek Renaissance (ca. 800-600 B.C.) • Polis/poleis • A. Greek Religion • Zeus • Apollo • Aphrodite • Athena • Artemis

13. II. The Greek Renaissance (ca. 800-600 B.C.) • A. Greek Religion • 1. The Relationship of Greeks to Their Gods • Anthropomorphic • Mount Olympus • Nemesis • 2. Forms of Worship • Olympia • Delphic oracle

15. II. The Greek Renaissance (ca. 800-600 B.C.) • B. Public Games • Panhellenic games • Olympics • C. Colonization (ca. 750-550 B.C.)

16. Map2.4 Greek Colonization, ca. 750-550 B.C.

17. II. The Greek Renaissance (ca. 800-600 B.C.) • D. The Alphabet • 1. Origin of the Alphabet • Phoenicians • 2. The Alphabet and Greek Life

18. II. The Greek Renaissance (ca. 800-600 B.C.) • E. Archaic Literature • 1. The Homeric Epics • Iliad • Achilles • Hector • Patroclus • Odyssey • Odysseus • 2. The Homeric Question • 3. Homeric Legends Far from Greece

19. II. The Greek Renaissance (ca. 800-600 B.C.) • E. Archaic Literature • 4. Archilochus • 5. Sappho

20. III. The Polis • A. Organization and Government • Astu • Acropolis • 1. General Structure of the Polis • Agora • 2. Population of the Poleis • Adult males

21. III. The Polis • A. Organization and Government • 3. Origins of Self-Government • Oligarchy • Monarchy • 4. Hoplites and Society • 5. Tyrants and Tyranny • 6. Greek Armies • Phalanx

22. III. The Polis • B. The Economy of the Poleis • (ca. 700-400 B.C.) • 1. A Modest Lifestyle • Agriculture • Pasturage • 2. Coinage and Public Expenses • Lydia • Drachma • Taxation

23. III. The Polis • B. The Economy of the Poleis • (ca. 700-400 B.C.) • 3. Use of Slave Labor • 4. Industry

24. III. The Polis • C. Sparta and Athens (ca. 700-500 B.C.) • 1. Early Sparta • Messenia • Helots • Lycurgus • 2. Sparta’s Government • Assembly, Elders, and Ephors • “Mixed” Constitution • Peloponnesian League

25. III. The Polis • C. Sparta and Athens (ca. 700-500 B.C.) • 3. Men and Women in Spartan Society • 4. Spartan Isolation • 5. Early Athens • Attica • Archons • Areopagus • Assembly

26. Map2.5 Classical Athens, ca. 400 B.C.

28. III. The Polis • C. Sparta and Athens (ca. 700-500 B.C.) • 6. Draco and Homicide Law • 7. Crisis in the Athenian Economy • 8. Solon and Economic Reform • 9. Solon’s Political Reforms • Four classes of citizens • Heliaea • 10. The Tyrant Pisistratus

29. III. The Polis • C. Sparta and Athens (ca. 700-500 B.C.) • 11. Cleisthenes and Demokratia • Hippias • Boule • 12. The End of Regional Factions in Athens • Deme and tribes • 13. The Use of the Lot in Elections • 14. Ostracism

30. IV. The Challenge of Persia • A. The Invasion Under Darius and Marathon (490 B.C.) • “Ionian Revolt” • Eretria

31. Map2.6 First Persian War, 490 B.C.

32. IV. The Challenge of Persia • B. The Second Persian War • (480-479 B.C.) • 1. Preparations for War • Xerxes • Themistocles

33. Map2.4 The Second Persian War, 480-479 B.C.

34. IV. The Challenge of Persia • B. The Second Persian War • 2. The Invasion of 480 and Thermopylae • Leonidas • 3. Themistocles and the Victory at Salamis • 4. The Battle of Plataea (479 B.C.) • Pausanias • Mycale

35. V. The Wars of the Fifth Century (479-404 B.C.) • A. The Athenian Empire • Delian League • Cimon • B. The Age of Pericles • 1. The Golden Age of Athens • Parthenon • Sophocles • Euripides

36. IV. The Wars of the Fifth Century (479-404 B.C.) • B. The Age of Pericles • 2. The Athenian Judicial System • C. The Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.) • 1. The Outbreak of War • 2. The Archidamian War (431-421 B.C.) • Archidamus • Peace of Nicias

37. IV. The Wars of the Fifth Century (479-404 B.C.) • C. The Peloponnesian War • 3. The “Suspicious Truce” (421-415 B.C.) and the Affair of Melos • Melian Dialogue--Thucydides • 4. The Syracusan Expedition • Segesta, Sicily • Alcibiades • Nicias • Syracuse

38. IV. The Wars of the Fifth Century (479-404 B.C.) • C. The Peloponnesian War • 5. Athens Defeated • Lysander • Aegospotami • “Liberation of Greece” • Thirty Tyrants • Pausanias

39. Map 2.8 Greece in 431 B.C.