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- c. 1800-1100 BCE
- Got its name because bronze was the main metal used, especially in weapons
- highly developed civilizatios in Near East (Egpyt, Mesopotamia, Anatolia)
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| Mycenaean Civilization in Greece |
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- Bronze Age!!
- Mycenaea & other sites
- palace cultures
- script: LINEAR B; used for inventories
- ended during Early Iron Age- collapse of palace cultures & disappearance of Linear B
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- c. 1100-800 BCE
- AKA "Dark Age"
- major upheaval throughout Near East, c. 1200-1100
- end of Mycenaen civilization
- origin of many Greek myths?
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- c. 800-500 BCE
- origins of "typical" ancient Greek culture
- overseas trade & colonization
- intro of alphabet from Phoenicia
- earliest Greek lit: Homer, Hesiod, Hymns
- rise of polis:City-State (athens, Thebes, Sparta)
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- c. 500-300 BCE
- Persian Wars: 490& 480-79 BCE
- rivalry among major Greek city-states
- TRAGEDIES- poetry, drama; Aeschylus & Euripides
- "philosophy"- critique of traditional wisdom; begins in 6th century BCE; Plato: prose!
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- 323-31 BCE
- Alexander the Great (356-323 BCE); territorial kingdoms after his death
- lit become self-consciously "literary/scholarly"
- "Hellene" = Greek
- "Hellenize" = to adopt Greek culture
- "Hellenistic" = period of adopted Greek culture
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- 510-31 BCE
- Roman Conquest of Mediterranean World: c. 250-150 BCE
- Romans heavily influenced by Greek culture, but kept their Latin Language
- Roman civil wars: 1st century BC
- Augustus becomes "emperor" of Rome: 31 BCE
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- Augustus: ruled 31 BCE-14 CE
- Vergil & the Aeneid: an epic for Augustus
- other Imperial Period writers: Plutarch (50-120 CE)- biography Apuleius (125-170 CE)- novel
- Constantine 1st Christian emperor ruled 312-337 CE
- eventual end of Greek & Roman myth
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