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1 The Isles of Greece! 2014 The Southern Cyclades
THE isles of Greece! the isles of Greece Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.

2 Historical Overview PREHISTORIC GREECE : The Stone Age
Paleolithic KYBP Homo heidelbergensis (Petralona), Homo neanderthalis (~ KYBP), Homo sapiens (~26 KYBP) end of ice age Mesolithic 13-9 KYBP Neolithic BCE First Cycladic cultures: Sáliagos Sáliagos Antiparos

3 PREHISTORIC GREECE : The Bronze Age
Early Bronze Age BCE Early Cycladic Middle Bronze Age Middle Cycladic; Minoans; destruction of Akrotiri 1628 Late Bronze Age Late Cycladic; Mycenaeans Dark Age Homer, Panhellenism, Egalitarianism, Polis Particularism Friedrich, Fire in the Sea Prehistoric Thera Plato, Timaeus Homer, Odyssey

4 Archaic 750-480 BCE Colonization, Hoplites, Tyranny, Philosophy
Pindar, Odes Aeschylus, Agamemnon Herodotus on the Foundation of Thera Pericles’ funeral speech Plato Acts, Corinthians ANCIENT GREECE Archaic BCE Colonization, Hoplites, Tyranny, Philosophy Classical Persian Wars , Athenian Empire, Peloponnesian War , Alexander Hellenistic Seleucids, Macedonians, Ptolemies Roman 146 BCE-330 CE Corinth and Constantinople

5 MEDIEVAL GREECE Byzantine The Franks Tourkokratia Orthodoxy, Diaspora

6 MODERN GREEK HISTORY Byron Greek poetry Leigh Fermor Kazantzakis
Revolution Absolutism and Reform Irredentism, nationalism, and the Megali Idea: Crete and Venizelos A Half-century of War Balkan War , WW I , Catastrophe , Metaxas , WW II , Civil War Reconstruction and Dictatorship Karamanlis , NATO and the EEC, Cyprus The Colonels Byron Greek poetry Leigh Fermor Kazantzakis Merrill Miller

7 COMTEMPORARY GREEK HISTORY
Karamanlis’s ND , , Papandreou’s PASOK , , The European Debt Crisis Caretaker and coalition governments Tsipras’s Syriza 2015 PIIGS Bond Spreads ( ) PMs: A Papandreou (PASOK), Simitis (PASOK), Karamanlis (ND), G Papandreou (PASOK), Samaras (ND) EU + IMF: First rescue package (May 2010), Second rescue package (July February 2012), Third package under discussion; to be decided May or June 2014 Picture Feb 2012 shows Evangelos Venizelos, Min of Finance, and Christine Lagarde, Director IMF, work out austerity measures for 2d package

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