More Greece!

- Only 20% of Greece's land is arable- suitable for farming
- Greek diet - grains, grapes, olives and fish
- Lack of resources lead to colonization
- Mycenae- located on a rocky ridge on Peloponnesus, protected by a 20 foot thick wall
- The lliad-  Possibly one of the last conquest of the Mycenaeans

- The Odyssey- Odysseus attempts to return home after the Trojan War
                          Trip was supposed to take two weeks, but took him 10 years
                          God of the Sea, Poseidon created storms to throw him off course
- The Odyssey was 12,110 lines
   Written in dactylic hexameter- reads like a poem
- Written by Homer- blind man known as greatest story teller
                                  Lived at the end of the "Greek Dark Ages"
                                   People aren't entirely sure if he was a real person or not