The Greek Middle Ages: c. 1125 - c.700 BC
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Greek settlers in the Euxine
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The Greek settlers in the Euxine region were loyal to their Greek heritage. For them Achilles was a form of patron saint and Homer was very popular. They were also attracted to the myth of Jason and the Golden Fleece, which was rationalised by poets, who identified the mythical land Aia with Kolchis, into a story of expansion. They accounted for the Golden Fleece by explaining that it was a reference to a method of panning for alluvial gold by using fleeces. However, the climate of the Black Sea did not favour the Greek outdoor way of life, and whilst the Greek colonies there were loyal to their Greek heritage, they did not contribute in the same way as western colonies to Greek culture. Intellectuals born in these colonies tended to migrate back to mainland Greece.
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Contents of
The Greek Middle Ages: c. 1125 - c.700 BC
1 Population growth and land hunger
2 Economic expansion and the rising "middle class"
3 Cultural developments in Greece during the period of tyrannies
4 Hoplite tactics
5 Factional politics
6 Ethnic tensions
7 The downfall of tyrants in archaic Greece
8 The Dorian and Ionic migrations
9 The Dorians
10 Greek Dark age
11 The Greek City States
12 Greek colonization of the C8th BC
13 Greek colonization of the Aegean and East
14 Greek settlers in the Euxine
15 Causes of the Greek colonization
16 Archaeological evidence for Greek population expansion in C8th BC
17 Foundation of Cyrene
18 Corcyra
19 Olbia
20 The Lelantine war
21 Relations with Egypt
22 Greek Culture during the Greek Middle Ages
23 Introduction of phonetic script
24 Homer
25 Hesiod
26 Foundation of the Olympic Games
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