The Greek Middle Ages: c. 1125 - c.700 BC DOWNLOAD FREE

Homer Homer was a native of Ionia. In his work he drew upon an oral tradition relating to the heroic age, but he embellished it with his own genius. His work cemented in the Greek psyche the ideal of manhood, in the character of Achilles, his loyalty and friendship for Patroklos and above all his placing of honour above long life. Odysseus was another kind of hero - resourceful, cunning, yet indomitable. It is not known for certain that the author of the lliad was the same as that of the Odyssey but according to tradition they were. Every city in Ionia also claimed him, but it is most likely that he came from Chios.

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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