The Greek Middle Ages: c. 1125 - c.700 BC
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Foundation of Cyrene
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Evidence from the founding of Cyrene on the North Afrcian coast by the island of Thera also supports this thesis. The island of Thera colonised the area of Cyrene at some stage as a result of a local famine. Cyrene proceeded to export grain to Greece and the now extinct herb silphion, which was used as a laxative. Cyrene was home to an important tourist trade too, as Greeks passed through it on their way to the oracle of Siva, which was the oracle of Ammon (Amon), who was identified with Zeus. In addition to the oral traditions recorded by Herodotus for this, we have inscriptions from Cyrene, one of which records the decree by the Therans that the death penalty would be meted out to anyone who had been chosen to go to the colony who refused or to anyone who harboured such a renegade. The settlers were chosen by lot from families with two or more sons.
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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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