2.The Chronology of Greek hx
BC (before Christ) 3000 2000 1000 480_______/AD (year of our Lord latin)_________2013
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7000-3000 Neolithic/New stone age--
3000-2100 Early bronze age
2100-1600 Middle bronze age
1600-1200 late bronze age
1200-750/700 Dark age/Iron age (1200 about troy timeline) writing reemerges in the 700-800 getting out of the dark ages.
750/700-480 Archaiac period (ends with persion destruction of athens)
480-323 Classical period (great bldgs in athens/plays/comdies/tradgeies
323-30 Hellenistic period (period after the death of alexander the great) hellous became greek
776 first olypimcs (about the time emerging from the dark ages)
480 persians destroy athens
404 sparta defeats athens (near end of …show more content…
its dificult sometimes to see a text that mixes together myth and history. its usable to view cultural values. Homer wrote it down, its just one of dz of stories.
Homer is a relection on society at the time. even in antiquity there are multiply stories as to why the trojan war happen.
Herodotus is in the mid 5th century 450 inventor of modern history. (per socretes) He is writing about his findings without bias and he wants orepor so that it’s not lost. (persians =barbarians)
Herodotus puts his name on his work.
Thucydides (written after herodotus) died about writting ab out the peloponnesian war (two greek cities) Home wrote about greeks and trojans. spartan and athens (the two cities) write clearly and plainly (paper)
Biggest loser (thucydides gets kicked out of his own city)
Thucydides is a participant talking to the ppl there he is seeing hearing things
Herodotus (was telling a story--some ppl say--its a story he heard and is not repeating it)
Thucydides says this is what happened. (could be biased is he right?)
Heordotus says this and this and this happened--did it happen because of