Exam Flashcards
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Myths
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Stories with a religious content; they explained our relationship to forces beyond our control
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Homer
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- the Iliad and Odyssey
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Hesiod
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Theogony
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Who were the Titans:
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- pre gods, offspring of Gaia (earth) and Uranus (sky)
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Greek Gods
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- primal, self created Gods
- they did not create humankind
- did not produce canonical texts like the Bible
- did not forbid or punish the pursuit of knowledge
- they influenced human action by sending messages via oracles, dreams, and prophets
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Ancient Greece and its Early Diasporas
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- starting around 750 BCE Greek peoples travelled across Mediterranean and black seas
- at first established temporary settlement or homes away from homes
- later in accord or competitions ith other people they established permanent settlements or colonies in the hundreds
- travelled to secure materials, slaves, and land
- merchants: barley, wine, oil, ..
- borrowed alphabet from Phoenicians, math from Babylonians, and coinage for lydians
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Knossos: Minoan and Palatial
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- foundation myth
- minis likely an snack
- palaces and Palatial periods
- agrarian societies run like fiefdom
- Kythira and Akrotir
- seafarers and great sailors
- Mycenaean presence before Mycenaean conquest
- end of Knossos: Mycenaean and tsunami
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Miletus
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- founding myth: Nereus killed all local carina males in order to marry and breed their widows, refused to speak their husbands names or share meals with them
- found many settlements up and down Ionia: eastern Aegean all the way up Black Sea
- bought grains, fish, slaves and sold oil and pottery
- political tyranny
- fell to Persians
- 500 BCE Ionian revolt; Persian empire destroyed Miletus; rebuilt afterwards
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Miletus people
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- Aspasia, partner to Periklis and later Lycicles, both Athenian politicians
- Thales: mini- leonard
- Anaximander: natural philosopher
- Anaximenes: natural philosopher
- Hoppodamus: created if the grid plan used in city planning
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Massalia “settlement”
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- Greek colony in south if today’s France
- governed by benevolent, self regulatory aristocracy took advantage of physical setting
- two foundation myths: one sunny involving marriage and one dark involving spartan incasuob
- became gateway to the rest of Western Europe for wine and viticulture
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Syracuse
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- part of the “golden” west
- regions of unusual wealth, fertility, and prosperity
- foundation myth: the rives Alpheios fancied water nymph, she did not like his advanced and fled to Syracuse, creating flow of non salt water followed by first settlers
- first settler fame from Corinth (well organized and wealthy pjs)
- many others settled from Africa and Spain
- brothers; Gela, Gelon and Horton played important role in history
- politically Syracuse and Sthens went opposite directions: Syracuse more democratic
- late in 5th century Dionysius installed monarchical regime
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Alexandria
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Alexander III (the Great) son of Phillip of Macedonia and Olympiad
- Olympias most likely had role in Phillips assaination gaurantee her sons right to empire
- became champion of Hellenism shading Persian empire; destruction Thebes
- became capital of sciences and arts
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Hellenic
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Greek
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Hellenistic
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Greek in culture and administration with a strong native influence
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Greek origins
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- first culture are Mycenaeans, centred at Mycenae in the Argolid
- Greek language script is Linear B
- flourished from about 1600-1050 BCE
- after collapse of Mycenae the “Dark Age”
