Regents Review - Ancient Greece

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ANCIENT GREECE The Iliad
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The Geography of Greece
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Archaic Greece 1650 BCE - 700 BCE
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Bronze Age Greece
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Crete Minoan Civilization(Palace at Knossos)
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Knossos Minoan Civilization
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Minoan Civilization
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Minoan Mycenaean Civilizations

• Minoan culture was wide-ranging empire
• Both partner and rival of Mycenaeans
• Mycenaeans destroyed settlements
• Minoan civilization disappeared
• Mycenaeans were nomadic Indo-Europeans, settled
  into towns
• Our knowledge comes from archaeological
  excavations and epic poems, the Iliad and the
  Odyssey
• Trojan War probably caused by Mycenaean trade
  rivalry with Troy
• Mycenaeans engaged in extensive internal warfare
• Fell to the Dorians
• Dark Ages then began as culture declined

Dark Age Vase (Image Gallery, Minn. State U.)
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The Mycenaean Civilization
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The Mask of Agamemnon
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Homer The Heroic Age
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The Iliad

• Information about
• Text
• Homer
• Mythological Background

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Important Names, Dates and Terminology

• 8th century BCE
• 1184 BCE
• Homer
• Description
• The Homeric Question
• Epic
• Oral Tradition

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Important Themes, Motifs and Narrative Elements

• CHOICE and PERSUASION
• THE HEROIC CODE
• LEADERSHIP
• TRIANGULAR RELATIONSHIPS
• SIMILES
• THE GODS

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Do NOT Reduce The Iliad to

• PRIDE
• Or
• FATE

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Characteristics of Homeric Text

• Beginning in medias res
• Cinematic presentation of events
• and of warfare
• Look for sense imagery in the text
• Use of PARALLELISM when
• discussing events, characters
• and gods

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Homeric Cycle

• Series of texts about Troy
• Some tell the same stories as the Homeric epics
• Many tell entirely different stories
• What still exists contains only a part of the
  entire story of the Trojan War

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Mythological Stories You Need to Know

• Helen and the Suitors
• Wedding of Peleus and Thetis
• Hecubas Dream of the Burning City
• Judgment of Paris
• Sacrifice of Iphigenia

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Helen and the Suitors

• Helen daughter of Tyndareus
• Clytemnestra daughter of Tyndareus twin of
  Helen (later) wife of Agamenon
• Penelope niece to Tyndareus
• Suitors
• Agamemnon king of Argos son of Atreus brother
  of Menelaus
• Menelaus brother of Agamemnon
• Odysseus king of Ithaka (later) husband of
  Penelope
• Ajax son of Telemon great warrior

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Hecubas Dream of the Burning City

• Priam Hecuba
• _____________________________________
• SONS DAUGHTERS
• Hektor (m. Andromache) Cassandra
• Paris (m. Helen) Polyxena
• Deiphobus Creusa
• Polydorus 47 other daughters
• 46 more sons

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Wedding of Peleus and Thetis

• Thetis water nymph, daughter of Nereus
• Peleus mortal man, son of Aeacus, King of Aegina
• Thetis and Peleus are the parents of Achilles

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Wedding of Peleus and Thetis (cont.)

• OLYMPIAN GODS
• Aphrodite goddess of love
• Apollo god of healing, music, prophecy
• Ares god of war
• Artemis goddess of the hunt
• Athena goddess of wisdom, strategy
• Demeter goddess of the Harvest
• Hephaistos god of fire and metal craft son of
  Hera and Zeus crippled because he was thrown by
  Zeus
• Hera wife of Zeus
• Hermes messenger god
• Poseidon god of the sea
• Zeus king of the gods (very unfaithful) husband
  to Hera

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Wedding of Peleus and Thetis (cont.)

• ERIS Goddess of Discord, not invited to the
  wedding of Peleus and Thetis
• Golden apple inscribed To the Fairest

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Gaining a Strong Wind

• Agamemnon Clytemnestra
• ___________________________
• 
  
• Iphigeneia Electra Orestes

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For Next Class

• Read, highlight/margin note TEXTBOOK Rise
• of Ancient Greece, pages 65-72 The Iliad
• and The Odyssey, pages 75-85 (Benton).
• Reaction Writing 7 Who would you want by
• your side in a dangerous situation, Achilles
  or
• Odysseus? Why?