Greek Dark Ages
| 2000 | - | 1380 | Minoan Civilization (Crete) |
| 1600 | - | 1200 | Mycenean Civilization |
| 1200 | - | 700 | Greek Dark Ages |
| 700 | - | 480 | Archaic Greece |
| 480 | - | 338 | Classical Greece |
| post | - | 338 | Hellenistic Greece |
ca. 1645 eruption of Thera (Knossos destroyed, rebuilt)
ca. 1380 Mycenean conquest of Crete, eastern Mediterranean
ca. 1200 Trojan War
ca. 750 Homer
479 Persian invasion
Bronze Age Civilizations
Minoan (Crete)
Greek Linear A
Mycenean (Balkans)a
Greek Linear B
Ioclus - Jason
Orchomenus - Athamos
Corinth - Creon
Mycenae - Agamemnon
Sparta - Menelaus
Pylos - Nestor
Ithaca -Odysseus
House of Atreus
Tantalus
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Pelops
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Thyestes Atreus
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Aegisthus = (Clytemnestra) = Agamamnon Menelaus
= (Helen)
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Iphigenia Electra Orestes
Apollo (justice) - oracle at Delphi
Furies
Athena (wisdom - "Athens")
Homer
Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Oresteia (trilogy)
Euripides, Electra, Iphigenia
Sophocles, Electra
Myth
memory
stability of verse ...
Dorian
Greek Dark Ages
ca. 1200 - 700 B.C.
Troy
Hittites
Embario (Chios)
Melitus (Ionia)
Myth: memory of cultural trauma
Geographic factors
Archaic Greece (ca. 750 B.C. - 480/479)
Polis
Agriculture (George - a farmer)
yeoman farmer - private ownership of land
orchard - grafting
slavery
year-round work
autarkeia - self-sufficiency
Homer, Odyssey, 24.225-433
Laertes
Dolios
Warfare
bronze age - cavalry, chariot
archaic, classical Greece = infantry
hoplites < hoplon (a shield) = "heavily armed infantry"
phalanx
casualties