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    Iakobos Kambanellis

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    Iakovos Kambanellis This is an interview with Greek directorConstantinos Passalis- by Reza Shirmarz based on translating Iakovos Kambanellis into Persian - :‫نوشتۀ پشت جلد این کتاب عبارت است از‬language. Constantinos Passalis was born in Marmari of Evia‚ Greece. At a very young age his family moved to Athens where after finishing his secondary education‚ he studied law. The Arts won him over however and he went on to study theatre at the Michaelides School of Drama. He then came to London

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    Chapter 10: Mediterranean Society: The Greek Phase * Homer a man who never existed: composed 2 great epics: Iliad and the Odyssey. Bards recited it. Believe scribes committed them to writing. Others believe that a man named Homer helped to write it with other people. Iliad offered Greek perspective on campaign waged by Greek Warriors against city of Troy in Anatolia. Odyssey: Experience of Greek Hero Odysseus as he sailed home after the Trojan War. Works described difficulties faced by Greek

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    and childcare‚ citizen women‚ who owned the slaves and ran the households‚ and the hetaerae‚ courtesans‚ sophisticated companions and prostitutes. The archaeological record of the Late Bronze Age is spotty at the best of times but sites in ancient Mycenae suggest that several Bronze Age cultures had centres of female power in all of the public sphere‚ both the religious and political. We can see within the works of Homer where even though Helen is “abducted” from Sparta‚ the battle Menelaus and Paris

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    Humanities 101 Midterm Review Weeks 1 and 2 Mesopotamia: Sumerians‚ Akkadian‚ Babylonian‚ Assyrian Euphrates River Tigris River Fertile Crescent Uruk Cuneiform: wedge or nail shape marks pressed into wet clay –used for over 3000 years Sumerians 3500-2350 Located in lower Mesopotamia Between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers Part of the Fertile Crescent Invented writing and beer (Kassi) Purpose? Records of goods and services 2700 BCE: rough date assigned the historical Gilgsmesh‚ King

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    Anatolia) Gold‚ amethyst and cornelian – semi precious stones (Egypt) Linen‚ stone perfume‚ jars‚ beads (Egypt) Exports: Pottery Serpentine stone lamps Lead and bronze figurines (Southern Greece and the Aegean islands) Gold and silver vessels (Mycenae and Thera) Cypress timber (Greece‚ Egypt‚ Aegean

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    The first European civilisation began in Crete about 2‚000 BC. This bronze age civilisation is known as the Minoan civilisation. By about 1600 BC civilisation had spread to mainland Greece. This early Greek culture is called Mycenae. The Mycenaeans built great palaces with frescoes and bathrooms. However the Mycenaeans seem to have been a warlike society. People were often buried with weapons such as swords‚ spears and daggers. Most soldiers wore helmets made of leather with boar’s tusks sewn

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    into the underworld: “His task was to bring Cerberus‚ the three-headed dog‚ up from Hades” (Hamilton 174). This task requires a lot of strength and courage as mentioned by Hamilton‚ “He lifted him and carried him all the way up to earth and on to Mycenae” (Hamilton 174). Without Hercules this task could not be accomplished by anyone. All twelve of the tasks that Hercules was to perform didn’t not require much intelligence or cleverness‚ just strength. In many Greek myths there are no brains involved

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    of the treasures.In 1873 Heinrich found treasure there that included golden earrings‚ necklaces‚ pots of silver‚ gold and other itemssuch as gold diadems believed to have been worn by queens and princesses. He also found the mask of Agamemnon in Mycenae‚ in Greece.Most of this treasure was believed to be owned by King Priam who ruled Troy.He‚ however‚ left Turkey with the treasure without giving the government anything and was later sued and was fined $5000‚ which he gladly paid ten times over since

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    Hell or Underworld: An Adventure After Death A judgment placed on the soul of a human being determines the future punishments and consequences after death. Dante Alighieri and Homer‚ two authors each publishing epic novels explaining the outcome of death‚ the afterlife‚ and one’s potential punishment. Alighieri is the first individual of his time to evaluate people in a poem‚ The Inferno‚ and place them in Hell for their sins and illegal actions. The Greek poet‚ Homer‚ uses

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    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

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