Introduction to the Ancient World: Greece

Lecture 8

A Time of Change: Greek Colonization (750-600 B.C.) 

I. Later adaptations of Odysseus (Ulysses); please download 

A. "Ulysses" by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1843): the restless searcher

B. "Ithaca" by Constantine Cavavy (1911): a metaphor for a fulfilling life 

II. Colonization: significance and impetuses 

III. The areas 

A. Asia Minor (e.g. Miletus), Black Sea

B. Syria, Egypt (Naucratis); Libya (Cyrene)

C. west (Phocaeans defeated in 540 B.C.); Massilia (Marseille)
Magna Graecia: Neapolis (nea polis), Sybaris;
Pythagoreans Sicily: Syracuse, Segesta, Acragas

D. how to relate the new places to Greece; Herakles, Hellenocentrism 

IV . Social and political change 

A. timocracy (plutocracy)

B. hoplite phalanx

C. tyranny, e.g. Corinth (655-585 B.C.) 

V. The new individualism in poetry: Sappho, Archilochus, Xenophanes (7th/6th cents. B.C.); PLEASE DOWNLOAD HERE

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