CLAS 1P91 Lecture 3: LEC3_Sept14 Fall 2017
Document Summary
Sir arthur evans: excavated knossos on crete, began in 1900, rediscovered a lost civilization, called it minoan after the legendary king minos. Palace of minos at knossos: monumental structure. Reconstruction of knossos: minoan places (ground plan of knossos, central courtyard, complex of rooms, economic centers, redistribution, large storage for agricultural uses. 240 000 gallons could be stored this means this could have been a storage ground, created a redistribution network for trading, etc: administrative centers, linear a script. Liner a tablet: religious centers, snake goddess. Religious artifact: political centers, stone chair. Where an important political figure sat during religious ceremonies: unfortified (open from the top, minoan thalassocracy, they lived on an island so believed that no one could get to them. Minoan crete and mycenaeans: c. 1450 bce all minoan palaces were destroyed except knossos. Knossos the only one standing: mycenaeans, linear b found at knossos after destructions, mycenaean script.
