Periods of Greek History Flashcards
1
Q
In what order do the periods line up in (from earliest to latest)?
A
'Mycenaean' Bronze Age Dark Age Archaic Age Classical Age Hellenistic Age
2
Q
What period was the ‘Mycenaean’ Bronze Age?
A
1600 - 1100
3
Q
Dark Age
A
1100 - 800
4
Q
Archaic Age`
A
800 - 490
5
Q
Classical Age
A
490 - 323
6
Q
Hellenistic Age
A
323 - 31
7
Q
What was Mycenaean Greece known for?
A
Central Government
Efficient Organization
Written records (Linear B)
Architectural and artistic achievements
8
Q
What was Dark Age Greece known for?
A
Cultural Decline:
- Breakdown of centralized power
- End of stone architecture
- Most skilled work disappears
- Art of writing is lost
9
Q
What was Archaic Age Greece known for?
A
Reinventing writing
The Greek Alphabet
- Derived characters from Phoenicians (but record vowels as well as consonants)
10
Q
What was Classic Age Greece known for?
A
Myth develops:
- Through Lyric (=sung) poetry (especially by Pindar)
- Through Tragedy (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides)
- Communal nature of both artform
11
Q
What was Hellenistic Age Greece known for?
A
Age of Scholarship - Interest in variants commentaries Learned poetry - Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica Royal patronage and select audiences
