The Greek Bronze Age: Origins and Collapse (I) “Minoans”
● September 28 meeting for italy may 2022 @5:30
Aegean Islands
Cyclades
Crete ca 200-1600 BCE
Gulf of Argos
Fertile Crescent:
Sesklo and Dimini (Thessaly)
Athens
Neolithic Athens Ca 5000 BCE
Bronze age
➔ 3300-2200 BCE
➔ Early bronze age: Cycladic figurines, House of the tiles at lerna, priam’s
treasures at Troy
Cycladic Culture ca 3000 BCE
Lerna
Troy
Palace at Knossos (alt. Cnossus)
Charging Bull-Fresco ca 1450 BCE
Bull Leaping Fresco ca 1450 BCE
Bull’s Head vase
Minoan Labrys Crete 17
*Minoan Hegemony ca 2000-1600 BCE*
Akrotiri
Mycenaeans 1600-1200 BCE
● Before bronze age is stone age
● Ca means circa of around
● 40,000 years ago people migrated to south africa and populated greece
● Radiocarbon Dating (new archeology) ca 20,000 years ago
● Neolithic revolution
● House of the Tiles ca 2500-2300 BCE
● Corridor house ca 2500-2300 BCE
● Linear A (Minoan)
● Bulls dominated the minoan art
● Charging Bull-Fresco ca 1450 BCE
● Bull Leaping Fresco ca 1450 BCE
● Bull’s Head vase
● Minoan Labrys Crete 17
● Minotaur
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Ship Procession in the west house found in akrotiri
Thalassocracy: for power, for sea
Minoan art portray nature
Minoans influenced by the egyptians
Hagia Triada Sarcophagus
Minoan Snake Goddess Figurines ca 1600 BC
Linear A -> B
Vapheio Cups 15th century BCE
Eponymous, Mycenae
Mycenae the lion gate