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Title: CNEART 430: Homer, Troy, and the Trojan War
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CNE/ART 430 Homer, Troy, and the Trojan War
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Timeline Greek history and literature
- Bronze Age
- Mycenaean civilization dominant from 14th c.
until c. 1200, the end of Myc. civ. on the
mainland. - Oral poetry, no written literature (just economic
records, etc.)
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Dark Age
- Mainland palace centers destroyed by natural and
human disasters, slow abandonment of sites. - Widespread population shifts and movements, new
centers arise. - Oral poetic tradition
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Geometric Greece (900-700)
- Circa 750 BCE one workshops activity shows the
rebirth of representational art. - Homer culminates the oral tradition Iliad and
Odyssey composed and then written down.
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Archaic Greece (700-500)
- Lyric poets (Sappho, Alkaios, etc.)
- Rise of the polis
- Rise of sanctuaries (panhellenic)
- Colonization
- Invention of alphabet
- Earliest Greek writing poetry (hexameter)
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Early Greek Inscription
- Retrograde, hexameter
- On drinking cup
- Nestor had a fine drinking cup, but anyone who
drinks from this cup will soon be struck with
desire for fair-crowned Aphrodite.
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Timeline Summary
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