1. Classical Civilizations: Greece
SECTION 1 Cultures of the
Mountains and the Sea
Mr. Pagliaro
Seymour High School

2. Objectives Identify the Mycenaeans
Explain how Greek culture is based on Mycenaean, Minoan, and Dorian cultures
Identify Homer and the significance of Greek Epics

3. Key Terms Terms epics myths Trojan War Names Minoans Mycenaeans
Heinrich Schliemann
Homer
Aesop

4. Mediterranean Geography

5. Greek Settlements

6. Regions of Greece
Isthmus of Corinth
Peloponnese

7. The Greek landscape

8. Greek Coastline

9. Trojan War
Iliad-Homer
Achaeans (Mycenaeans) vs. Trojans
Achilles!!!

10. Hellespont

11. Classical Greek Trade Routes

12. Heinrich Schliemann & Troy
Mask of Agamemnon
Heinrich
Schliemann
Used Homer’s epics to discover Troy and other Mycenaean sites.

13. The Greek Oral Tradition: Storytellers
Aesop- c. 600s BC
Homer- c. 1100s BC/800s BC
Fables
Tell moral tales
Taught values
Slave
Iliad & Odyssey
Epics
Taught:
Religion
Morals
Values
Greek ideals
Multiple authors?
Blind

14. Dorian Invasion C. 1200 BC End of Mycenaean culture
Major cities burned (Athens and Sparta remained)
Greece entered a Dark Age
No written records

15. Dorian Age/Dark Age c. 1150-750 BC
Indo-Europeans
Brought iron
Less advanced than Mycenaeans
No writing
Mycenaeans wrote similarly to Minoans

16. Review
What impact did nearness to the sea have on the development of Greece?
Why were the epics of importance to the Greeks of the Dorian period?