CLA 1101 Lecture 4: Lecture 4
8 Feb 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Outline 4: middle bronze age crete: the minoans, thera. She is sitting on a white bull. Middle bronze age (this is under the mainland) Gave rise to the idea to the half man half horse. Helllas: middle bronze age: m helladic: regression, m cycladic: static, m minoan: progress ( a lot of change and improvement, cyclades (mc, crete (mm) Not much is known beyond what homer said. Book 19: its location is known, well developed, rich, people are mulit-lingual, government is monarchy. Middle bronze age (minoan) crete: homer (c/f quotation p. 50) Statue: one had the eagle of zeus. When she lands in crete, she gives birth to 3 boys. Minos takes central crete and becomes the king. Minotaur & labyrinth: pasiphae then gives birth to a minotaur, it lived in the labyrinth (made by daedalus, annual human sacrifice to the minotaur, 7 males and 7 females from athens.
