1. Introduction to Greek and Roman History Lecture 1 Before the Polis: Homer and the “Dark Ages”

2. Luca Asmonti l.asmonti@warwick.ac.uk Room 232, Humanities Building Tel. 024 761 50407 Office hours:Monday 3.00-4.00 pm Wednesday, 11.00-12.00 am

3. Roma Aeterna

5. The image of the perfect ruler - I

6. The image of the perfect ruler - II

7. The seat of authority

9. What does ancient evidence tell us? 1. A copy of Thucydides 2. A funerary stele from Attica 4. An Attic drinking cup (kylix) 3. Account of expenditure for the organisation of festivals

10. The problem with Greek identity

11. What was Greek? A map of the Greek world

12. Olympic states

13. What was Greek? Homer Homer Supposed author of Iliad and Odyssey, set in a semi-mythical “Bronze Age” If he actually existed as a single individual, flourished between 750- 730 B.C. Wrote in the Ionian dialect

14. The Greek world at the time of the Trojan War The end of the Bronze Age Chronology 1184 B.C. (Eratosthenes) 1209/8 B.C. (Parian Marble) 1250 B.C. (Herodotus) 1334/3 B.C. (Douris).

15. Heinrich Schliemann, 1822-1890 1873-1874:Discovered the site of ancient Troy on the hill of Hissarlik (Turkey). 1876-1877: Discovered the site of ancient Mycenae.

16. What we know about the Bronze Age Mycenae, Lion’s Gate Mycenae, Agamemnon’s mask Palace of Cnossos

17. What we know about the Bronze Age: Cnossos

18. What we know about the Bronze Age: Mycenae

20. Main centres of the Minoan-Mycenaean world

21. What we know about the Bronze Age Linear A Linear B

22. Mycenaean society Wanax: “divine lord”; political, military, religious leader. Lawagetas: leader of the army. Telestai: “landowners”. Koretes: governor Prokoretes: vice-governor. Damos: the people.

23. The Greek world after the collapse of the palaces Social-political system collapses. Population decreases. Linear B disappears. New form of burial (cremation instead of inhumation). Protogeometric pottery.

24. The dawn of a new world: Achilles’ shield