Historical Background

Historical Background:

• Mycenaean Civilization

• The End of Mycenaean Civilization

• The Early Greek Dark Age - 4 sections

• The Archaic Age - 30 sections, but look at the first three on the polis and citizenship

• The Late Archaic City-State: Tyranny - 12 sections

• The Late Archaic City-State: Lyric Poetry

• The Late Archaic City-State: The Ionian Thinkers - 4 sections

Sample Herodotus' Histories

• Book 1 - including the stories of Croesus and Cyrus

• Book 2 - Egypt

• Book 3 - including the stories of Cambyses (son of Cyrus) and Polykrates

Important Sites (in Perseus Database)

• Delos
• Eleusis