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Classical Civilizations:
Greece
SECTION 1 Cultures of the
Mountains and the Sea
Mr. Pagliaro
Seymour High School
Objectives
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Identify the Mycenaeans
Explain how Greek culture is based on
Mycenaean, Minoan, and Dorian cultures
Identify Homer and the significance of
Greek Epics
Key Terms
Terms
 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
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Iliad-Homer
Achaeans
(Mycenaeans)
vs. Trojans
Achilles!!!
Hellespont
Classical Greek Trade Routes
Heinrich Schliemann & Troy
Mask of
Agamemnon
•Used Homer’s epics to discover
Troy and other Mycenaean sites.
The Greek Oral Tradition:
Storytellers
Aesopc. 600s BC
 Fables
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Tell moral tales
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Homerc. 1100s BC/800s BC
 Iliad &
Odyssey
Taught values
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Slave
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Epics
Taught:
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Religion
Morals
Values
Greek ideals
Multiple authors?
Blind
Dorian Invasion
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C. 1200 BC
End of Mycenaean culture
Major cities burned (Athens and Sparta
remained)
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Greece entered a Dark Age
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No written records
Dorian Age/Dark Age
c. 1150-750 BC
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Indo-Europeans
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Brought iron
Less advanced than Mycenaeans
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No writing
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Mycenaeans wrote similarly to Minoans
Review
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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?