Ancient Greece, LF 397

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Ancient Greece, LF 397
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Maps consulted Jones' Strabo, Johann H. Voss,
C. Mills Gayley, Robert
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The terrain of Greece

• Greece covers about 82,000 square miles, about
  the size of England.
• With 3054 islands, and a jagged shoreline,
  Greeces coastline runs about 9320 miles.
• Italy is much larger than Greece, covering about
  187,000 square miles, but Italys coastline is
  only 5400 miles.
• Greece is mountainous and has 20 peaks over 6500
  feet.
• (from Sparkes Greek Civilization and Pomeroy
  Ancient Greece)

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Attica
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Mt. Olympos, 9500 feet
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Sougia, Crete
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An Old Greek Legend

• When god created the earth, he used a sieve to
  distribute the good soil everywhere, keeping back
  the stones in the sieve. He then threw the stones
  over his shoulder and created Greece.
• (Friedrich Sauerwein in Sparkes Greek
  Civilization, 3)

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Epidaurus
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The hyphen between East West

• West of Asia Minor
• North of Egypt North Africa
• East of Italy
• Greece, though claimed by Europe, is the hyphen
  between East and West.

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Weather forecast?

• Greece is semi-arid, although the climate varies
  from region to region.
• Summers are generally hot and dry, while winters
  are cool and wet.
• Drought floods made farming difficult, but
  people farmed and survived.
• (from Pomeroy Ancient Greece)

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Sauerwein suggests 3 seasons

• Season of flowering and ripening (March-June)
• Dry Season (June-October)
• Wet Season (October-March)

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Whats for lunch?

• Mediterranean triad
• Grain
• Grapes
• Olives
• (photo of olive tree by Sandra Jackson)
• (triad from Pomeroy)

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Still hungry?

• Bread, wine, and olive oil were the staples of
  the Greek diet.
• Vegetables, nuts, and fruits, along with goats
  and sheeps-milk cheeses rounded out the diet.
• Most Greeks ate little meat.
• Honey was used for sweetening, and water and wine
  were the drinks of choice.

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Rugged Terrain

• People made and still make cheese from the milk
  of sheep and goats and make clothing from their
  wool.
• Goats and sheep still graze in the Greek
  countryside.
• Sheep and goats (and donkeys) can go where a car
  or truck cannot.

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Ancient Greece The way it was
                                                  
                                                  
                    
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The way the
Greeks saw it
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Ancient Greece was not unified

• Plato wrote I believe that the earth is very
  large and that we who dwell between the pillars
  of Hercules and the river Phasis live in a small
  part of it above the sea, like ants or frogs
  around a pond (Phaedo 109).

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