The Isles of Greece! 2014The Southern Cyclades

THE isles of Greece! the isles of GreeceWhere burning Sappho loved and sung,Where grew the arts of war and peace,

Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!Eternal summer gilds them yet,But all, except their sun, is set.

Historical OverviewPREHISTORIC GREECE : The Stone Age • Paleolithic 400-13 KYBP

Homo heidelbergensis (Petralona), Homo neanderthalis (~150-30 KYBP), Homo sapiens (~26 KYBP) end of ice age

• Mesolithic 13-9 KYBP• Neolithic 7000-3600 BCE

First Cycladic cultures: Sáliagos

SáliagosAntiparos

PREHISTORIC GREECE : The Bronze Age• Early Bronze Age 3600-2100 BCE

Early Cycladic

• Middle Bronze Age 2100-1600Middle Cycladic; Minoans; destruction of Akrotiri 1628

• Late Bronze Age 1600-1100Late Cycladic; Mycenaeans

• Dark Age 1100-750Homer, Panhellenism, Egalitarianism, Polis Particularism

Friedrich, Fire in the SeaPrehistoric TheraPlato, TimaeusHomer, Odyssey

ANCIENT GREECE• Archaic 750-480 BCE

Colonization, Hoplites, Tyranny, Philosophy

• Classical 480-323Persian Wars 490-479, Athenian Empire, Peloponnesian War 431-404, Alexander

• Hellenistic 323-146Seleucids, Macedonians, Ptolemies

• Roman 146 BCE-330 CECorinth and Constantinople

Pindar, OdesAeschylus, AgamemnonHerodotus on the Foundation of TheraPericles’ funeral speechPlatoActs, Corinthians

MEDIEVAL GREECE• Byzantine 330-1453

The Franks 1204-1456

• Tourkokratia 1453-1821Orthodoxy, Diaspora

MODERN GREEK HISTORY• Revolution 1821-32• Absolutism and Reform 1832-1909

Irredentism, nationalism, and the Megali Idea: Crete and Venizelos

• A Half-century of WarBalkan War 1912-13, WW I 1914-18, Catastrophe 1922-23, Metaxas 1936-41, WW II 1940-44, Civil War 1946-49.

• Reconstruction and DictatorshipKaramanlis1955-63, NATO and the EEC, CyprusThe Colonels 1967-74

ByronGreek poetryLeigh FermorKazantzakisMerrillMiller

COMTEMPORARY GREEK HISTORY

• Karamanlis’s ND 1974-81, 1990-93, 2004-9Papandreou’s PASOK 1981-89, 1993-2004, 2009-

• The European Debt Crisis