The Archaic Greek World and the Mediterranean

These lectures are designed especially for those taking Herodotus and Early Greek History (Lit.Hum), Early Greece and the Mediterranean (CAAH), Greek history c.650-479 B.C. (AMH) and The World of Homer and Hesiod (AMH). They will concentrate particularly on the literary and epigraphic sources in comparison with the archaeological evidence. Topics will include: the early polis, traditions of colonisation and the archaeological evidence, early Greek writing and its significance, Herodotus as a source and writer, orientialisation, the growing interaction of the Greek world with the Persian Empire. They will begin with the themes and material relevant to the earlier part of the period for those who are being examined on Early Greece and the Mediterranean this term.

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