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Introduction to Greek and Roman History

Introduction to Greek and Roman History. Lecture 1 Before the Polis: Homer and the “Dark Ages”. Luca Asmonti. l.asmonti@warwick.ac.uk Room 232, Humanities Building Tel. 024 761 50407 Office hours: Monday 3.00-4.00 pm Wednesday, 11.00-12.00 am. Roma Aeterna.

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Introduction to Greek and Roman History

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  1. Introduction to Greek and Roman History Lecture 1 Before the Polis:Homer and the “Dark Ages”

  2. Luca Asmonti • l.asmonti@warwick.ac.uk • Room 232, Humanities Building • Tel. 024 761 50407 • Office hours: Monday 3.00-4.00 pm Wednesday, 11.00-12.00 am

  3. Roma Aeterna

  4. The image of the perfect ruler - I

  5. The image of the perfect ruler - II

  6. The seat of authority

  7. The seat of authority

  8. What does ancient evidence tell us? 2. A funerary stele from Attica 1. A copy of Thucydides 3. Account of expenditure for the organisation of festivals 4. An Attic drinking cup (kylix)

  9. The problem with Greek identity

  10. What was Greek? A map of the Greek world

  11. Olympic states

  12. 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

  13. 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).

  14. 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.

  15. What we know about the Bronze Age Palace of Cnossos Mycenae, Lion’s Gate Palace of Cnossos Mycenae, Agamemnon’s mask

  16. What we know about the Bronze Age: Cnossos

  17. What we know about the Bronze Age: Mycenae

  18. What we know about the Bronze Age: Mycenae

  19. Main centres of the Minoan-Mycenaean world

  20. What we know about the Bronze Age Linear B Linear A

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

  22. 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.

  23. The dawn of a new world: Achilles’ shield

  24. The dawn of a new world: Achilles’ shield

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