The Greek Dark Age Block 1

Question 0

Olympic

Answer 0

776 -First Olympic games

750 - 700 Geometric pots in the Kerameikos cemetery in Athens, helps directly with dating Homer as depicts events in his work in early-middle-late geometric. Phoenician owls in poems and in visual arts

740 - (about) Greek Alphabet created from Phoenician models / Semitic source

Question 1

Principle Dates in the Greek Dark Age

Answer 1

1600 -1150 Mycenaean Civilisation + Troy IV

1250 The Trojan War

1150 - 1100 collapse of Mycenaean civilisation

900 - Buildings at Nichoria and Lefkandi

Question 2

Homer

Answer 2

720 - 700 Homer’s poems composed (oral version firmed up 725- 675)

700 - 650 Hesiod’s (early epic poet) narrative style ‘Theogony’ a Genealogy of The Gods , ‘The Catalogue of Women’ a continuation of the Theogony and ‘Works of Days’ advice on living a life of honest work

530 - 510 Homer’s poems written down on the orders of Peisistratus in Athens