CLA 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Carians, Bsc Young Boys, Hagia Triada Sarcophagus

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 1101
• Professor: Heather Loube

Document Summary

E (epsilon) is for eros, son of aphrodite. Middle helladic cist grave: individual burials, inside settlement walls. Wheel-made middle helladic pottery: minyan ware (grey, not decorated, simple) and matt. It is called minyan after the first rich man, minyas. M helladic: regression, in the early bronze age we saw a monumental house at lurna (worked with metal). One of the great islands of the world in mid-sea, in the wine dark sea is crete: spacious, rich and populous with 90 cities and a mingling of tongues and one among their 90 towns in. Zeus & europa, princess of phoenicia (modern day lebanon). She crossed across the sea to the island of greek on the back of zeus who seduced her. Daidalos & pasiphae, zeus got his revenge by making the wife of minyas (pasiphae) fall in love with a bull (a myth). Pasiphae & baby minotaur (the baby made by the bull)