1. Brief Overview of Ancient Greek Culture

2. Greek Geography

4. Greek History Bronze Age (~3000 – 1200 BC) Epic Age (1200 – 700 BC)
Archaic Period (700 – 500 BC)
Classical Period (500 – 300 BC)
Hellenistic Period (300 – 30 BC)

5. Bronze Age Greece Inhabitation by Indo-Europeans
Minoan civilization on Crete
Rise of the Mycenaeans on mainland Greece

6. Epic Age Greece
Loss of written technology
Composition of epic poetry

7. Archaic Period Reinvention of writing using Phoenician alphabet
Development of the polis
Growth in seaborne commerce
Rise of Persian Empire

8. Classical Period Foundation of the Athenian Democracy (508)
Persian invasion of Greece
Battle of Marathon (490)
Battle of Salamis (480)
Growth of Athenian culture and empire
Peloponnesian War ( )

9. Hellenistic Period Rise of Macedon under Philip
Conquests of Alexander the Great
Fracturing of Alexander’s empire
Rise of Rome

10. Greek Society Political and social life dominated by male citizens
Important elements:
War
Symposia
Athletics
Politics

11. Women in Greek Society Lack of sources hinders full appreciation
Responsible for maintaining household
Monogamy increased importance of bearing children
Several women only festivals

12. Religion and Beliefs Gods had personalities like humans
Main method of worship was sacrifice
Could consult oracles
Supernatural world interacts with natural world:
Magic
Spirits and ghosts of the dead
Dreams

13. Greece and Rome
Greek and Roman cultures begin to meld (Greece becomes a Roman province in 146 BC)