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presocratics
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3500 BC 3000 BC 2500 BC 2000 BC 1500 BC 1000 BC 500 BC 1 AD 500 AD 1000 AD 1500 AD 2000 AD
3500 BC - 2500 BC
Sumerian
3000 BC - 1100 BC
Mycenaean
2800 BC - 60 AD
Egyptian
2800 BC - 1400 BC
Minoan
2700 BC - 800 BC
Assyrian-Babylonian
1200 BC - 800 BC
Greek Dark Ages
600 BC - 200 BC
"Classical" Greece
400 BC
Greek Action
1776 AD - 2006 AD
us
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“
Odyssey
There is a land called Crete, in the middle of the
wine-dark sea, beautiful and fertile, surrounded
by water; and in it there are many people, countless, and in
ninety cities...and among them is Knossos, the
great city, where Minos was king...
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Minoa
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Knossos
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a written language
“Linear A”
“Linear B”
syllabic
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Linear B decoded in 1953...an ancient form of
Greek.
Linear B
Phoencian
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3500 BC 3000 BC 2500 BC 2000 BC 1500 BC 1000 BC 500 BC 1 AD 500 AD 1000 AD 1500 AD 2000 AD
3500 BC - 2500 BC
Sumerian
3000 BC - 1100 BC
Mycenaean
2800 BC - 60 AD
Egyptian
2800 BC - 1400 BC
Minoan
2700 BC - 800 BC
Assyrian-Babylonian
1200 BC - 800 BC
Greek Dark Ages
600 BC - 200 BC
"Classical" Greece
400 BC
Greek Action
1776 AD - 2006 AD
us
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Mycenaean Culture
Homer’s folks
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Mycenaean culture
severe
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the pilliage of Troy ~10 years, 1250 BC
(contemporary with Moses & Ramses II)
Dorians invaded in 1100 BC
and the lights went out for 450 years
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always influential
Egypt
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their art
static
conceptual...abstract?
Funerary Scene, Egyptian, ~1450 B.C.
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draw your hand
c’mon
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Portrait of Hesire, Egyptian,
~2770 B.C. a wooden door
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Fowling Scene, Egyptian, ~1450 B.C. limestone
Geese, Egyptian, ~2500 B.C.
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unchanged
for a thousand years
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slowly
a mixed culture emerged
expansion and migration
true to Minoan roots: a sea-faring people
a unique political federation of City States
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early Greek artthree phases
Geometric Period: 1000 - 776BC
Orientalizing Period: 776 - 600BC
Archaic Period: 600 - 480BC
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upon awakening: aeiou
Mourning of the Dead,
Greek, ~750 B.C.
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by ~600 BC...they had spread out
the Aegean was their backyard
Olympic Games, Iliad/Odyssey, Persia on the rise
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the jumping-off point
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brand new
four things
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(a)
whyhow questions
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(b)
abstraction
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(c)
mathematics
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“3”
31,2,3
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(d)
history
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is a Greek invention.
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“Herodotus of Halicarnassus hereby publishes the results of his inquiries, hoping to do two things: to preserve
the memory of the past by putting on record the astonishing achievements both of the Greek and the non-Greek peoples; and more particularly, to show how the
two races came into conflict.”
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a new notion of time
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650 BC 600 BC 550 BC 500 BC 450 BC 400 BC 350 BC 300 BC 250 BC 200 BC 150 BC 100 BC 50 BC 1 AD 50 AD
3500 BC - 2500 BC
Sumerian
3000 BC - 1100 BC
Mycenaean
2800 BC - 1400 BC
Minoan
2800 BC - 60 AD
Egyptian
2700 BC - 800 BC
Assyrian-Babylonian
1200 BC - 800 BC
Greek Dark Ages
624 BC - 546 BC
Thales
610 BC - 545 BC
Anaximander
600 BC - 200 BC
"Classical" Greece
575 BC - 500 BC
Pythagoras
570 BC - 525 BC
Anaximenes
544 BC - 480 BC
Heraclitus
514 BC - 450 BC
Parmenides
499 BC - 479 BC
Persian Wars
495 BC - 430 BC
Pericles
484 BC - 424 BC
Herodotus
469 BC - 399 BC
Socrates
455 BC - 370 BC
Democritus
431 BC - 404 BC
Peloponnesian War
427 BC - 348 BC
Plato
395 BC - 387 BC
Corinthian War
384 BC - 322 BC
Aristotle
366 BC - 323 BC
Alexander
365 BC - 280 BC
Euclid
287 BC - 212 BC
Archimedes
190 BC - 120 BC
Hipparchus
168 BC - 148 BC
Wars with Rome
1776 AD - 2006 AD
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