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Late Bronze age (Mycenaean Age)(1600-1150) -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..Mycenae takes over Crete, destroyed
Knossos, and becomes central power in 1450.
Early Dark Age(1250-900): - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..-Mycenae
was destroyed, which resulted in cultural and literary
decline.
-Then mainland Greeks resettle in Ionia, Dorians take
over.
-1250 marks Trojan war.
Late Dark Age (900-750): - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..-Population
growth and new trade.
-800-Greek alphabet, 776-First Olympic Games 700-
Greeks settle in Magna Graecia, S. Italy (Siciliy)
,Archaic (750-480) - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..-Rise of City States
(Thebes, Athens, and Sparta)
-499: Ionian Greeks rebel which creates conflict with
Persia. 479- Xerxes was driven from Greece.
Classical(480-323): - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..-First democracy.
-Athens is famous.
-We see the rise of culture and lit (Socrates, Plato,
Euripides, Xenphon)
Hellenistic(323-30): - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..-Alexander the
Great dies, Greece falls.
-Greeks then adapt Roman culture, Rome expands beyond
Italy, Romans translate Greek lit into Roman.
Linear B - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..-A script that recorded a form
of Mycenaean Greek script and deciphered in 1952
(Ventris.) Used for keeping economic accounts. Found in
Pylos, Mycenae, &Thebes (showing cultural uniformity)
Isis - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..- Egyptian
Inanna/Ishtar - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..-Egyptian (Babylonian)
-Goddess of love & fertility (Meso diety).
-Attempts to seduce Gilgamesh; fails.
Gilgamesh - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..-Egyptian (Babylonian)
,-King of Uruk
Enkidu - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..-Babylonian
-Sent by gods to divert Gilgamesh to relieve people
-Wild, naked and uncivilized until tamed by prostitute
-Fights and then becomes Gilgamesh's BFF
Epic of Gilgamesh - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..-Enkidu sent to help
people of Uruk by stopping Gilgamesh
-After fight, Enkidu and Gilgamesh become friends
-Both go on journey to Cedar Mtn to defeat Humbaba
-Kill Bull of Heaven sent by Ishtar
-Enkidu sentenced to death
-After Enkidu's death, Gilgamesh goes on journey for
eternal life... doesn't find it.
-This resembles....
Hesiod - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..-1st European writer
-"Theogony" most important mythical texts to survive
Theogony - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..-written by Hesiod
-Tells the origin of the universe through succeeding
generations of gods.
-an elaborate hymn to Zeus
Homer - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..-The man
-some of our earliest greek lit
, -written down once greek alphabet was established, oral
stories before that.
Homeric Hymns - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..-during archaic period
-collection of poems
-composed orally
-written to Demeter, Apollo, Hermes, and Aphrodite
-performed in specific places by aoidoi
Apollodorus - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..-most surviving work of
the mythographers
-straight forward account of mythical events from
creation to death of Odyssesus
-primary source for creation story
Three Primordal elements - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..1) Chaos,
then
2) Gaea (Earth), then
3) Tartarus (base of things)
---4) Eros (sex)
"There was Gaea.. and then Tartatus.."
Cronus - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..-Parents: Uranus (Sky) & Gaea
(Earth)
-Last born Titan
-Clever; hated father