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Clst 181SK Ancient Greece and the Origins of Western Culture Early Greece A Basic Chronology 1a. Bronze Age - Minoans 1900-1450 BCE 1b. Bronze Age - Mycenaeans 1450-1200 2. Iron Age (Dark Ages) 1200-750 3. Archaic Period 750-480 4.

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Early Greece

Clst 181SK Ancient Greece and the Origins of Western Culture

A Basic Chronology

  • 1a. Bronze Age - Minoans 1900-1450 BCE
  • 1b. Bronze Age - Mycenaeans 1450-1200
  • 2. Iron Age (Dark Ages) 1200-750
  • 3. Archaic Period 750-480
  • 4. Classical Period 480-323
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  • 1a. Bronze Age Greece - Minoans

The Minoan Civilization (1900-1450 BCE)

  • Knossos, Crete
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  • 1b. Bronze Age Greece - Mycenaeans

The Mycenaean Civilization (1450-1200 BCE) Mainland Greece, especially the Peloponnesus

Mycenae – Palace Megaron

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Mycenae – Demons?

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The Bronze Age - Collapse

  • Greek Palace structures are destroyed in about 1200-1150 BCE
  • Knossos

Mycenae Pylos Thebes Tiryns Troy(!)

We do not know how or by whom the devastation occurred - the Greeks told a story of invaders (the “Dorian invasion”)

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  • 2. The Greek “Dark Age” - the Iron Age
  • 1200-750 BCE

Lefkandi – Heroön plan

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  • 2. The Iron Age
  • 1200-750 BCE

Early Geometric Vase 850 BCE

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Iron Age – Movement to the Archaic Period

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Early Greece

Clst 181SK Ancient Greece and the Origins of Western Culture

A Basic Chronology

  • 1a. Bronze Age - Minoans 1900-1450 BCE
  • 1b. Bronze Age - Mycenaeans 1450-1200
  • 2. Iron Age (Dark Ages) 1200-750
  • 3. Archaic Period 750-480
  • 4. Classical Period 480-323
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  • 3. The Archaic Period
  • 750-480 BCE

750 BCE 700 BCE 600 BCE 560 BCE 530 BCE

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The Archaic Period 750-480 BCE

Clst 181SK Ancient Greece and the Origins of Western Culture

Background to the “Classical Moment”

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The Archaic Period

Mantiklos Apollo, 700-650 BC

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The Archaic Period

Mantiklos Apollo, 700-650 BC

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The Archaic Period

Geometric bronze horse, c. 700 BC

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The Archaic Period

New York Kouros

  • c. 600 BC
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The Archaic Period

Kouros

  • c. 600 BC

Mentuemhet, Egypt, 7th c.

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The Archaic Period

Kleobis & Biton, c. 590 BC

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The Archaic Period

Calf Bearer Kouros, 560 BC

  • “Archaic smile”
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The Archaic Period

Kroisos (Anavysos ) Kouros c. 530 BC

  • Note original paint
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The Archaic Period – Movement to the Classical

  • Cf. Kritios Boy, 480 BC
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The Archaic Period

Maiden from Auxerre, c. 650 BC

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The Archaic Period

Phrasikleia Kore, c. 550 BC

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The Archaic Period

Peplos Kore c. 530 BC

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The Archaic Period

Maiden of Chios, c. 510 BC

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  • Cf. Caryatids from the Porch of Maidens,

Erechtheion, Acropolis; Stele of Ampharete

The Archaic Period – Movement to the Classical

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A Basic Chronology

  • 1a. Bronze Age - Minoans 1900-1450 BCE
  • 1b. Bronze Age - Mycenaeans 1450-1200
  • 2. Iron Age (Dark Ages) 1200-750
  • 3. Archaic Period 750-480
  • 4. Classical Period 480-323
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  • 3. Archaic Period 750-480
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480 BCE

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480 BCE The Persian War

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480 The Persian War

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480 The Persian (Achaemenid) Empire

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Herodotus “The History of the Persian Wars” “The History of the Persian Wars” “The Father of History”

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Herodotus What is “History”?

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Herodotus What does it mean to write “History” before “History” has been invented?

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Herodotus But what does it mean to “invent” history?

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Herodotus History as a formal narrative about the past (the study of such narratives is call historiography)

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Herodotus History as a formal narrative about the past

  • NOT “A COLLECTION OF FACTS ABOUT THE PAST”
  • NOT “WHAT HAPPENED IN THE PAST”

… AT LEAST NOT SIMPLY THAT

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Herodotus History as a formal narrative about the past

  • Story (narrative)
  • Memorialization
  • Analysis
  • Selection
  • Meaning

Herodotus, proem: “presentation to the public,” “researches” = historiê, “time not erase”, “great and marvelous deeds,” “glory” = kleos, “why”, “war/quarrel”

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The Snatchings of Women

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Erythraean Sea

Herodotus

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The Snatchings of Women

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Herodotus Io Europa Medea Helen

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The Snatchings of Women

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Herodotus Io Europa Medea Helen “The Persians Say” “The Greeks Say” “The Phoenicians Say”

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The Snatchings of Women

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Herodotus “The Persians Say” “The Greeks Say” “The Phoenicians Say”

WEST / EAST

Themes:

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The Snatchings of Women

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Erythraean Sea

Herodotus “The Persians Say” “The Greeks Say” “The Phoenicians Say” WEST / EAST Themes: Cause of the quarrel Women as objects Refusal of ransom

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The Story of Gyges Herodotus

I O N I A

LYDIA

  • Miletus

Corinth •

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The Story of Gyges Herodotus

H a l y s r i v e r

  • 1.3s Lydia, Sardis, Ephesus, Miletus. The Maeander River flows just north of Miletus, and

the town of Assessus is also in the area near Miletus (Milesia).

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The Story of Gyges Herodotus Themes