![]() ![]() SEE: Bronze Age Aegean - Bronze Age cultural map - Mesopotamia - Egypt - Minoan Crete - the Minoan World: social/political highlights - Minoan/ Mycenaean chronology - Knossos: Sir Arthur Evans - aerial of palace - monumental entrance, W - horns of consecration - queen's megaron - bull jumping - Phaistos: plan - site - disk - Mallia: aerial view - palace granaries, SW - Zakro: palace, aerial - Gournia: palace - houses - Thera: Spyridon Marinatos - island - site - fisherman - boxers, kids - more stuff: axe heads - snake goddess 1 - 2 - Linear A, tablet READ : Osborne, chapter 1 (pp1–18) and chapter 3 (pp53–69) "Early Greece and the Bronze Age," chapter 1 of Pomeroy, Burstein et al., Ancient Greece: A Political, Social and Cultural History (pp5-18 only) SEE: Ancient Greece, detailed map - aerial - Greek civilization: general timeline - Bronze Age Aegean (Helladic, Minoan and Cycladic) Chronologyĩ/7 The Minoans and Early Mediterranean Civilization RECEIVE : condensed syllabus map of Early and Classical Greece (and regrettably faint blank version): memorize for map quiz on Tuesday, 9/12 They may prove helpful starting points for supplementary research ( i.e., papers):ĩ/5 Greece: Sources, Geography, Chronology ![]() The following texts are general reference works useful for classicists and ancient historians and can be found locally, most in McCabe and/or the Classics Seminar Room (Trotter 115). ![]() There are a few additional readings for this course, all of which will be available electronically: see the course schedule (below) for details. Required and recommended texts will be available in the bookstore, but you may be able to find used copies for less elsewhere: amazon - Barnes & Noble - abe Books. The Hesiod is simply a convenient (though perhaps expensive) collection of his works along with the Homeric Hymns. The editions of Homer and Herodotus listed above contain the exact selections that we will be reading for the course. If you like, you are welcome to use different/cheaper editions of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the Homeric Hymns, Hesiod's Works and Days and Theogony, and the Histories of Herodotus, provided that your edition(s) provide line numbers (for poetry) and paragraph/chapter divisions (for prose). Romm, Heorodotus on the War for Greek Freedom (Hackett: Indianapolis/Cambridge, 2003). This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.S. The unit will try to stay in formation when in melee. It can also rally after routing more often. This unit does not suffer a morale penalty when the general dies. The unit moves into close wall formation. Many armies adopted the phalanx of hoplites as a tactical unit because it was very successful in battle. Later, under Phillip II of Macedon and Alexander the Great, the shield became smaller, while the spear developed into the five metre sarissa pike. While all hoplites were originally citizen-soldiers, full-time mercenaries took over and became the standard fighting unit of the Greek world. When closed up, each man would find shelter behind the shield of his neighbour, creating a wall of bristling spear-points. The hoplon-and-spear combination required them to fight as a phalanx, a block of spearmen some eight ranks deep. Hoplites were named, though, after the round hoplon shield they carried. ![]() They were armed with a short sword and an iron-tipped spear with a bronze counterbalance butt-spike. During the Greco-Persian Wars most hoplites wore a Corinthian-style bronze helm, and a cuirass of bronze or stiffened linen or canvas. Hoplites date back to the wars between the Greek city-states in the 8th and 7th centuries BC. ![]()
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