CLCV 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Walter Burkert, Aegean Civilizations, Greek Mythology
10 Mar 2019
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Probably relating to fertility, or a fertility goddess. Perhaps these people worship a female goddess: early bronze age greeks come in here. There is writing in the late bronze age, although the greeks were not writing down poems, hymns, or history. After dark age: greeks adopt alphabet from phoenician"s and start to write great stories, now writing stories that were being told orally before, ancient remains were still visible and people told stories about them . The minoans: minoan comes from king minos, evans (archeologist) looking for something similar to what he already knows; Trying to interpret what he is finding in relation to his own life in 19th/20th century. Working in crete looking for inscriptions; dug in knossos and found what might be palace of minos; thought that this palace maybe inspired the mythology behind it. Found earliest evidence for writing in greece cretan hieroglyphs, Linear a (older ones), linear b (newer ones)
