Ancient Greece and Rome
Greek → geographic identity
- See human habitation in Greece sometime between 10,00 BC
- Neolithic society, stone age.
• Stone stools, small tribal groups
- Worship female earth goddesses
- 3000BC, fire and the development of copper and tin together, to work bronze (a hard metal that can hold an edge)
- The people then make a huge leap forward, abounded there stone stools
- Bronze really helps begin their history proper
- Sumer, Mesopotamia → along major trading routes
- Because of the proximity, that’s when civilization begin
- These people have long worked out the usefulness of bronze and how to make tools from it.
- Imported technology westward
- Khafra, Sphinx (ca 2500BC) → the Egyptians were building the pyramids when the Greeks were taking their first steps
- Greek civilization picked up in the South on an Island Crete
Minoans: 3000 – (2000/1600-1000)BC
• They built elaborate palaces on the Island
• Centered around an open courtyard
• Woman played a prominent role in the culture o As well as the Minoan religion
- Fresco at Knossos: bull-jumping
• Incredibly artistic
- No defense walls on the Palace, idealism people, no fighting
• Around the Mediterranean sea
- Left behind a linear script
• Cannot translate it to this day
Arthur Evans: King Minos
• Mythical king
- Son of Zeus and Europa
- Believed that Zeus had come to Earth in the form of a white bull, and stole the beautiful girl of Europa
- Throws her on his back and swims off into the ocean
- Their God (Zeus) rapes many women and impregnates them
- Greek were comfortable with this idea
Alexander III (the Great)
- Mother told him he was the son of a God
- The Greeks adopted this idea, and he established an important principle
• Ruler kings could be sons of God
- Christianity owes its success to the Greek idea the God impregnated woman
- Zeus’s abduction takes places in Phoenicia (Allegory) (Europa)
• Oral tradition of where they came
- See human habitation in Greece sometime between 10,00 BC
- Neolithic society, stone age.
• Stone stools, small tribal groups
- Worship female earth goddesses
- 3000BC, fire and the development of copper and tin together, to work bronze (a hard metal that can hold an edge)
- The people then make a huge leap forward, abounded there stone stools
- Bronze really helps begin their history proper
- Sumer, Mesopotamia → along major trading routes
- Because of the proximity, that’s when civilization begin
- These people have long worked out the usefulness of bronze and how to make tools from it.
- Imported technology westward
- Khafra, Sphinx (ca 2500BC) → the Egyptians were building the pyramids when the Greeks were taking their first steps
- Greek civilization picked up in the South on an Island Crete
Minoans: 3000 – (2000/1600-1000)BC
• They built elaborate palaces on the Island
• Centered around an open courtyard
• Woman played a prominent role in the culture o As well as the Minoan religion
- Fresco at Knossos: bull-jumping
• Incredibly artistic
- No defense walls on the Palace, idealism people, no fighting
• Around the Mediterranean sea
- Left behind a linear script
• Cannot translate it to this day
Arthur Evans: King Minos
• Mythical king
- Son of Zeus and Europa
- Believed that Zeus had come to Earth in the form of a white bull, and stole the beautiful girl of Europa
- Throws her on his back and swims off into the ocean
- Their God (Zeus) rapes many women and impregnates them
- Greek were comfortable with this idea
Alexander III (the Great)
- Mother told him he was the son of a God
- The Greeks adopted this idea, and he established an important principle
• Ruler kings could be sons of God
- Christianity owes its success to the Greek idea the God impregnated woman
- Zeus’s abduction takes places in Phoenicia (Allegory) (Europa)
• Oral tradition of where they came