CLASSICS 1M03 Lecture 2: Classics 1M03 Lecture 2.docx
14 Apr 2015
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Aristocrats- had money, interested in historical evidence: myth of trojan war didn"t actually happen, he is an enthusiast. Do not know where they came from. But it was a spectacular find: sources of information, cretan hieroglyphs, linear a . No information from this tablet: archaeology, knossos (2000 bce?, residenses, store houses, workshops, courtyard, decorated ceremonial rooms, minoan bull-leaping . Minoans jumping over a bull as a sport: food, oil, wine, precious minerals all stored there, what does this tell us, palace culture . It all works together: central, stratified, complex social order. Ritual, power, symbols, ceremony: ceremony for the powerful individuals who lived there and controlled the palace, kings, royalty, urbanization + centralization state formation, state formation, population growth specialization, differentiation. Division of labour, division of wealth: society needs to organize activities. Defense, resources, food and water: centralization and stratification. Because we can date most palaces on this time. Volcanic eruption at thera: 1500-1450 bce.
