The Greek Middle Ages: c. 1125 - c.700 BC
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Homer
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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.
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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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