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Greece: Humanism and the Speculative Leap
Greek humanities
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History
Undergraduate 1
02/24/2011

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Classicism
Definition
1. The best of its kind.
2. A style marked by the qualities of: clarity, simplicity, balance, proportion, regularity.
3. Foundations laid in the Aegean world.
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Greek Islands
Definition
Over 2000 Greek Islands of which 151 sare inhabited. AKA Cycladic cultires.
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Graecus
Definition
Latin name for Greece.
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Hellas, Hellenes.
Definition
The Greek called themselves Hellas. The people as a whole were called Hellenes.
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Javan
Definition
Noah's 4th son whose name means Greece.
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Earliest documents
Definition
All written by Homer
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Greeks were comitted to the role of what?
Definition
The individual intellect shaping the destiny of the community
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Scholas believe civlization arose from Where?
Definition
Mesopotamia
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Precursors to Classical Greek CULTURE?
Definition
1. MINIOANS- 2000-1400 BCE
2. MYCENAEANS- 1600-1200
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Aegean
Definition
Waves or tides.
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Peloponnese
Definition
Island (nesos) of Pelos (hero who conquers region and saves damsel.)
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Schlieman
Definition
German excavator who discovered troy and therefore the mycenaeans
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Crete
Definition
Island home to the minoans. 5th largest in Med. Sea at 8200 sq mi and is located 100k from the mainland
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Minoans
Definition
1. Migrants to the island of crete settled in Knossos.
2. Sea trades especially w/ cyprus and egypt.
3. Naturalists - sea life frescoes
4. Bull leapers
5. Concern for women
6. Concer for comfort and hygene
7. Highly developed society
8. Men beardless like egyptians
9. Bnoth sexes participated in public functions
chief diety was female- mother goddess of anatolia
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Minoan painting
Definition
Elegant drawings
bright colors
profile or fullfaced view
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Minoan cult
Definition
Fertility, snakes, male divinity, human sacrifice
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Minoan writing
Definition
Linear a- not deciphered
Linear b - deciphered early for of greek
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Greek myth about minoans
Definition
Minotaur kept in labyrinth
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Speculation as ti the end of minoan civilization
Definition
1 severe earth quake
2 tsunami
3 civil war
4 volcamic explosion on santerini, thera
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Megranon
Definition
Greek term for temple
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Mycenaeans
Definition
- established on mnland greece
- main city: mycenae
- militant and aggressive
- heaily fortified cities with cyclopean walls
- attacked troy in 1200 bce
- controlled all mainlnd greece
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Homer
Definition
Did he excist?
wrote iliand, odyssey
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Iliad
Definition
Heroic poem about trojan war, a war for hellen divine daughter of zeus, wife of menelas king of sparta, led by king agamemnon. Chronicles of achilles.
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