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CLAS 201: Greek Life and Culture
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Stratigraphy: Early Bronze
Age site at Dimini, Greece
Physical Sources
Antikythera Device
Literary Sources
Athenian Tribute List (epigraphy)
Athenian tetradrachm:
numismatics
Demosthenes Papyrus:
papyrology
Manuscripts: Palaeography
Book of Kells 9th c.
9th c. Euclid
15th c. Hesychius:
Dictionary o-p
Literary Genres
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Epic
Lyric Poetry
History
Tragedy
Comedy
Rhetoric
Philosophy
Scientific Writing
Novel
Periods of Greek History
Archaic 776-490 BC
Homer
Hesiod
Lyric Poets
• Classical 490-323
BC
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Herodotus
Thucydides
Sophocles
Euripides
Plato
Taygetus Mountain and the Laconian Plain
Piraeus Harbor, Athens
Olive
Abandoned
theshing
floor
Ariadne, Dionysus: grapes