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🗓️ 26 January 2020
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0:00.0 | This is the History of the World Podcast with me Chris Hasler |
0:14.0 | And you're listening to volume three the classical world |
0:20.0 | episode seven ancient Athens Episode 7, Ancient Athens. Oh, Now the story of ancient Greece is not an easy story to tell in a linear fashion |
0:58.1 | due to the many different aspects of Greek culture which we are lucky enough to have a lot of detail on. |
1:06.5 | The reason for this detail is thanks to the many written records that have survived the |
1:11.3 | test of time and come down to us in the present day |
1:14.7 | with stories of events and characters who existed in Greek lands 2.5,000 years ago. |
1:22.3 | Certainly we learned in episode two that Darius |
1:26.8 | the Great of Akeminid Persia invaded Greek lands in the 5th century B.C.E. |
1:35.0 | However, before this time there was a great deal to talk about in relation |
1:40.0 | to the activity of the societies of Greek lands before this period. |
1:45.0 | Culture and colonization are two particular aspects of ancient Greece which |
1:52.0 | deserve further attention in future episodes but for now we will |
1:56.4 | look at ancient Athens due to the significance that this particular Polis has on our understanding of ancient Greek political |
2:06.7 | developments. As we discovered in the previous episode the lands of Greece were ruled by the Mycenians during the second millennium |
2:16.8 | B.C. from their power base in the Peloponnese. The Mycenians and their influence dwindled away, eventually disappearing in the wake |
2:28.7 | of the late Bronze Age collapse, which we spoke of in episode 6 of volume 2 of this podcast. |
2:37.0 | As a result, the Greek lands enter the dark age, where there is no contemporary written evidence of what was going on. |
2:47.0 | What we can feel somewhat confident about is the fact that those people of the Greek lands that were left behind |
2:55.1 | after the late Bronze Age collapse continued to live in this area but their lifestyles |
3:01.0 | returned to a comparatively simple subsistence lifestyle |
3:05.6 | until society managed to rebuild itself and grow again. |
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