 Territory included:  Mountainous peninsula  Divided Greeks – never unified  1,400 islands  W. coast Asia Minor/Anatolia  “Did not live on land,

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 Territory included:  Mountainous peninsula  Divided Greeks – never unified  1,400 islands  W. coast Asia Minor/Anatolia  “Did not live on land, but AROUND seas”  Seas = Liquid highways  Trade very important b/c little resources  No timber, precious metals, usable farmland  Ate simple diet grapes, grains, olives  Moderate climate  Winter = 48 degrees F  Summer = 80 degrees F  Most people spent time outside

Marriage of Thetis and Peleus

HeraAthenaAphrodite

Helen of Sparta

MenelausAgamemnon

OdysseusAchilles

Iphigenia

Briseis Plague Death of Patroclus Death of Hector Death of AchillesDeath of Paris

 Helen gets back w/ Menelaus, but they’re stranded in Egypt for 7 years  Agamemnon makes it back to Mycenae, but is killed by his wife Clytemnestra with an axe  Odysseus wandered the sea for 10 years before returning home to Ithaca

Homer’s Troy (VII)

MINOANSMYCENAE Island of Crete Sir Arthur Evans King Minos Peaceful culture? Palace culture, vivid frescos, bull cult, fishing and trade Linear A Minotaur Greek Mainland Schliemann King Agamemnon Warlike culture Palace culture, walls and defenses, beehive and shaft graves Linear B Troy

(DORIANS} (DORIANS}

 Greek City State or Citizen State  “the people” or “the community”

 Each polis had an agora (market place) and acropolis (fortified citadel)

 Fundamental idea:  All male citizens equal political rights based on ownership of property  Non-citizen = Women, children, slaves and resident aliens (aka outsiders)

THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEYTHEOGONY AND WORKS AND DAYS

 Polytheistic  Hierarchal  Moral guideline  Anything in excess improper  Explained world  Myths

 Aphrodite- Love & Beauty  Apollo- Sun & Music  Ares- War  Artemis- Hunt  Athena- Wisdom & Arts  Demeter- Harvest  Dionysus- Wine  Hades- Underworld  Hephaestus- Metallurgy  Hera- Family  Hermes- Trade  Hestia- Hearth  Poseidon- Sea  Zeus- Sky

 Immortal, but not all powerful  Act like humans, have human vices too  Meddle and mingle w/ humans

 “Place of Hades”  Early thought = Gloomy Place  Later thought = Place of Judgment  Rewarded or cursed  Fields of Asphodel  Tartarus  Punishment fit crime

 Build temples  National shrines  Oracle of Delphi  Sacrifice  Festivals  Olympics