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CLAS 201: Greek Life and Culture Winter 2010

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Antikythera Device

Stratigraphy: Early Bronze Age site at Dimini, Greece

Physical Sources

Literary Sources

Athenian Tribute List (epigraphy)

Demosthenes Papyrus: papyrology

Athenian tetradrachm: numismatics

9th c. Euclid

Book of Kells 9th c.

15th c. Hesychius: Dictionary o-p

Manuscripts: Palaeography

Literary Genres

• Epic• Lyric Poetry• History• Tragedy• Comedy• Rhetoric• Philosophy• Scientific Writing• Novel

Periods of Greek History

Archaic 776-490 BC

Homer

Hesiod

Lyric Poets

• Classical 490-323 BC– Herodotus– Thucydides– Sophocles– Euripides– Plato

Taygetus Mountain and the Laconian Plain

Piraeus Harbor, Athens

Ariadne, Dionysus: grapesOlive

Aban-doned thesh-ing floor