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Graecia Antiqua

Graecia Antiqua. Ancient Greek history, culture, and influences on Rome. 5 Eras of Greek History. The Bronze Age (ca. 2000-1000 BC) 2 civilizations, plus possible island precursors Minoans – seafaring civilization, trade and wealth Mycenaeans – warlike; many kingdoms; Trojan War

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Graecia Antiqua

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  1. Graecia Antiqua Ancient Greek history, culture, and influences on Rome

  2. 5 Eras of Greek History The Bronze Age (ca. 2000-1000 BC) 2 civilizations, plus possible island precursors Minoans – seafaring civilization, trade and wealth Mycenaeans – warlike; many kingdoms; Trojan War Culture – Heroic tradition; Greek religion

  3. Dark Age (ca. 1100-800 BC) Decline of population around Mediterranean Collapse of kingdoms and long-distance trade Division of Greek peoples into many small villages Growth of ‘chieftain’ aristocracy Culture – rise of epic poetry, Homeric tradition

  4. Archaic Age: ca. 800-491 Growth in urban populations Rise of the polis city-state, Greek architecture Colonization – spread of Greek cities across the Mediterranean International trade, competition with Phoenicians Spread of Greek alphabet and written literature

  5. Classical Era: 491-323 BC Persian Wars Greek nationalism, height of polis Dorian League and the Peloponnesian War – Athens and Sparta Drama – festivals to Dionysus Philip, Alexander, and the Battle of Chaeronea Invasion of Persia Culture: Greek literature, law, sculpture, rhetoric, Socratic philosophy

  6. Hellenistic Era: 323-30 BC ‘Diadochoi’ – successor kingdoms to Alexander the Great Antigonids, Seleucids, and Ptolemies Collapse of the polis ‘Scientific’ warfare; professional soldiers Pyrrhus of Epirus and involvement in Roman affairs Roman conquest of Greek or Hellenistic civilizations – Macedon, Syria, and Egypt Culture – Spread of Greek as international language; Hellenistic philosophies

  7. Influences on Rome “Captured Greece took captive her wild captor” -- Horace Literature: Prose – history, rhetoric, philosophy Poetry – epic, lyric, drama Greek as second, educated language Art: Architecture, temples and monumental buildings Paintings and sculpture – public > private Politics: Polis system and public duty Democracy, oligarchy, and autocracy Religion: Greek gods and myths Socratic and Hellenistic philosophies Trojan connection in foundation myth

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