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1 | | -[[Course]] [[greek]] [[History]] |
| 1 | +[[Course]] [[greek]] [[History]] [[yale]] |
2 | 2 | # Introduction to Ancient Greek History |
3 | 3 | - https://oyc.yale.edu/classics/clcv-205 |
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37 | 37 | - Whatever caused the fall of Mycenae, it happened quickly and was devastating |
38 | 38 | - The collapse of the Mycenaean period brings us a clean slate |
39 | 39 | - Greeks are totally illiterate from ~1100-750 B.C. |
| 40 | +## The Dark Ages (cont.) |
| 41 | +- Largest consensus is that some of the details in the Homeric plays are correct but the details are often wrong |
| 42 | + - The way Homer described the world (palaces, materials, etc.) are representative of what has been found |
| 43 | + - Differences |
| 44 | + - The descriptions of how chariots are used in warfare is wrong |
| 45 | + - How they dealt with the dead (burial vs cremation) |
| 46 | + - Weapons |
| 47 | + - The Homeric society is not literate |
| 48 | +- Very little proof of what the world was like then |
| 49 | + - Poems of Homer are large source |
| 50 | + - Greek legends (should we use them?) |
| 51 | + - Archaeology |
| 52 | +- The higher naiveté |
| 53 | + - Knowing what to belief even if you can't prove it |
| 54 | +- The reason the Homeric poems contain so many discrepancies is because of the method used to pass them down |
| 55 | + - Bards would tell the stories and those bards would modify the poems to suit their talents |
| 56 | +- Why is Agamemnon wanax? |
| 57 | + - His role in the war |
| 58 | +- There is evidence of equality amongst nobility |
| 59 | + - They are all buried with the same graves |
| 60 | +- The distinct political line is between nobility and commoners (not monarchy) |
| 61 | + - Aristocratic society |
| 62 | + - Based on birthright |
| 63 | + - Decisions are made by the nobility meeting and discussing |
| 64 | + - Soldiers would have no say in strategy, decisions, etc. |
| 65 | +- Homeric poems would basically be considered the Greek Bible if they were religious in nature |
| 66 | +- Greeks claimed they were the same race as the gods |
| 67 | +- The tragic view |
| 68 | + - Man is great, death is oblivion |
| 69 | + - The contradicting view is tragic because there is no comforting story to resolve the tension |
| 70 | +- The polis was always the most important thing, the individual came after |
| 71 | +- The Greeks had no concept of natural rights (rights given by the gods) |
| 72 | + - You had to act to make life decent, which included participation in the polis |
| 73 | +- The Greeks believed that things happened by chance |
| 74 | + - Surprising that this is true even though they believed in the gods? |
| 75 | +- An agonal society |
| 76 | + - Filled with competition |
| 77 | + - People are constantly striving to be the best |
| 78 | + - The only way to defeat you mortality |
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