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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,

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2  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

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30 Marriage of Thetis and Peleus

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32 HeraAthenaAphrodite

33 Helen of Sparta

34 MenelausAgamemnon

35 OdysseusAchilles

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37 Iphigenia

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

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40  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

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42 Homer’s Troy (VII)

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47 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

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49 (DORIANS} (DORIANS}

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

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

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

55 THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEYTHEOGONY AND WORKS AND DAYS

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

58  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

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

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

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


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