Minoans and Mycenaeans Flashcards
(26 cards)
Minos, Pasiphae, Minotaur, Minoans
King Minos labyrinth Minotaur (Hellenistic interpretation of the palace system at Crete) there is no contemporary reference to king Minos during the era in which he was supposed to have lived, can’t verify it
Sir Arthur Evans
excavated crete
Crete
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Pre-Palatial
7000-2000 BCE
Knossos
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Palatial
2000-1470 BCE
palaces being used as storage facilities,
large number of tablets or texts called Linear A texts
Linear A
combination of syllabary and ideograms
Thera, Akrotiri
“Thera frescoes” natl. acrheo. mus. athens very naturalistic compare to avaris (hyksos capital)
pictue of frescoe with moat and boats and palace in the middle aktourii
Volcanic eruptions scale 7 volcanic eruption: ash buried most of the cities – this preserved the frescoes but also centr. part of mediterranean
Post-Palatial
1470-1000 BCE
Mycenaeans
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Schliemann
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Formative period
1575-1450 BCE
Palace Period
1450-1200 BCE
Sub-Mycenaean Period
1200-1000 BCE
Mycenae
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Tiryns
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Pylos
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Thebes
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Linear B
1470 or 1450 to almost exactly 1200 or so we begin to find texts written in linear B land or property management names of virtually all of the later greek gods and many other dieties
wanax
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dromos
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tholos
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megaron
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Homer
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