CLASSICS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mycenaean Greece, Ialysos, Lion Gate
12 Oct 2016
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Decline of the minoan culture caused by rise of the mycenaean civilization of mainland grace. Mycenaean presence at minoan sites: evidence that the mycenaeans inhabited the palace of knossos for a time. Relationship between text (homeric epics) & archaeology. Take over knossos as well as trianta. Iliad and odyssey attributed to poet homer: follows tradition of oral poetry; folklore that the greeks did not differentiate from factual history, poems based on events of c. 1200 bc (late bronze age), recorded ca. Iliad recounts events during the trojan war: battle of greeks. Mycenaeans vs. trojans (troy in asia minor: especially the anger of achilles, greek hero. Odyssey recounts events of greek hero odysseus returning to greece from troy. Sing, o goddess, the anger of achilles son of peleus, that brought countless ills upon the. Atreus, king of men, and great achilles, first fell out with one another. Leader of united greek forces against city of troy is agamemnon, king of mycenae.
