Week 6 - The Greek Iron Age Flashcards
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The Iron Age
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- ca. 1100-800 BCE
- aka the Dark Ages / Geometric Period cuz pottery
- beginning: pipulation down 75%, occupied sites down 50%
- collapse of foreign trade leads to collapse of bronze productions
- time ot development of most of the distinct elements of later Greek society
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Greek Iron Age
what defined it
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rebuilding of something new
3
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1st Period: Protogeometric Pottery (ca. 1000-900)
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- general storage vessels
- very simple
- neck and belly are empty
- light colour background
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2nd Period: Early Geometric Pottery
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- dark background with lighter decoration
- still has small designs
- amphora
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3: Middle Geometric Pottery
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- decoration still does not cover whole pot
- light decorations on dark backgrounds
- more of the vase is covered
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4: Late geometric Pottery
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- dark on light background
- whole thing is covered
- stick figures, not just abstract designs
- lots of funerary scenes
- figural design
7
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The Dyplon Amphora
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- 5 ft 1 inch tall
- quite well preserved
- central scene is a funerary scene
- men nude
- women have clothes on
8
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Geometric Period burials
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- cremation more common for the elite
- stelai and marker vases being to appear in the Early Geometric Period
- cemeteries begin to be built outside of city limits
- extramural burials begin in the middle geometric
- grave markers get bigger and bigger as periods go on
9
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Lefkandi
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- mid 10th century cemetery in a long apsidal house
- two graves dug into the bedrock
- wealthy grave goods
- covered with mound of Earth
- one of the largest structures in the Iron age
- consisted of extremly wealthy people (horses)
- buried with a knife beside her, could be because she was executed
- objects from bronze age found in. here
- evidence of hero worship
10
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The Greek Alphabet
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- a phonetic script
- late 8th century
- adapted from the Phoenician alphabet
- they add additional vowels in
11
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The Nestor Cup (Greek writing)
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- i am the cup of Nestor, good to drink from
- whoever drinks from me will be at once seized by desire of fair crowned Aphrodite
- lots of poems being written
12
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The Birth of the Polis
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- the city state
13
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Main physical components of the cities
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- marketpalce (agora)
- acropolis or city centre (each city dedicated to a God)
- graveyard
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Main political components
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- assembly of all free citizen adult males (able to participae in the state)
- council and magistrates elected from a select group (birth, wealth, class based structure)
15
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Archaic Period
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older period before Classical Period
