CLASSICS 1M03 Lecture 2: Classics 1M03 - Lecture 2 - Aegean Bronze Age
28 Jul 2018
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Today we"re going to discuss the civilizations of the bronze age aegean as they fit into the more general picture of the development and evolution of human society. In the second half of the nineteenth century two forgotten ancient civilizations were rediscovered: the minoan and mycenaean civilizations of the bronze age aegean. Previously, it had not been known that there were any developed, complex civilizations at this time period - the c2nd millennium bce - in the aegean region. In the 1870s a maverick german archaeologist, heinrich schliemann, unearthed the palace and city of mycenae. Later, further palaces were discovered in greece belonging to the same time period: tiryns, pylos and thebes. Bronze age greece in general "mycenaean" after schliemann"s first discovery. Also in the 1870s schliemann discovered troy on the other side of the aegean, in asia. Troy, of course, is remembered in the homeric poems, which date to the later.
