Classical Civilizations: Greece

SECTION 1 Cultures of the Mountains and the Sea

Mr. PagliaroSeymour High School

Objectives Identify the Mycenaeans Explain how Greek culture is based on

Mycenaean, Minoan, and Dorian cultures Identify Homer and the significance of

Greek Epics

Key TermsTerms epics myths Trojan War

Names Minoans Mycenaeans Heinrich Schliemann Homer Aesop

Mediterranean Geography

Greek Settlements

Regions of Greece Isthmus of Corinth

Peloponnese

The Greek landscape

Greek Coastline

Trojan War Iliad-Homer Achaeans

(Mycenaeans) vs. Trojans

Achilles!!!

Hellespont

Classical Greek Trade Routes

•Used Homer’s epics to discover Troy and other Mycenaean sites.

Heinrich SchliemannHeinrich Schliemann & Troy

Mask of Agamemnon

The Greek Oral Tradition: The Greek Oral Tradition: StorytellersStorytellersAesop-Aesop-c. 600s BCc. 600s BC Fables

Tell moral tales Taught values

Slave

Homer-Homer-c. 1100s BC/800s BCc. 1100s BC/800s BC Iliad &

Odyssey Epics Taught:

Religion Morals Values Greek ideals

Multiple authors?

Blind

Dorian InvasionDorian Invasion C. 1200 BC End of Mycenaean cultureEnd of Mycenaean culture Major cities burned (Athens and Sparta

remained) Greece entered a Dark AgeGreece entered a Dark Age

No written recordsNo written records

Dorian Age/Dark AgeDorian Age/Dark Agec. 1150-750 BCc. 1150-750 BC Indo-Europeans

Brought ironBrought iron

Less advanced than Mycenaeans No writing No writing

Mycenaeans wrote similarly to Minoans

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?