Syllabus
Students learn about:
- 2.1.0 overview of the Bronze Age world: major cultures and sites, social, economic, political structures
- 2.2.0 Trojan legends: Greek gods, Homer and the Epic Cycle, ancient and modern views before Schliemann
- 2.3.0 discovery and excavation of Troy: Calvert, Schliemann, Dorpfeld, Blegen, Korfman
- 2.4.0 Schliemann’s excavation at Mycenae
- 2.5.0 role of written evidence: Linear B – tablets from Pylos, Homer’s Iliad, Euripides’ Women of Troy, Hittite diplomatic archive
- 2.6.0 role and status of women: treatment of Helen, fate of Trojan and Greek women, goddesses
- 2.7.0 function of myth: Greek values, Greek religion, fantasy or history
- 2.8.0 major issues: evidence of Trojan War, Homer’s Iliad, Schliemann – father of archaeology or fraud, the legacy of the Trojan War for classical Greek society, poetry as an historical source.
Introduction
You will need:
Antiquity 1: pg 106-108 TASKS:
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