CLST 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Beehive Tomb, Greek Alphabet, Dendra

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 102
• Professor: Colivicchi Fabio

Document Summary

Sample exam questions (ready to prepare for the exam: minoan crete. Minoan civilization (derived from the name king mino: minoan civilization: the palace of knossos. Central court yard (surrounded by number of store rooms) Store room: storage of beakers, jars, containers, decorations of oicial halls. Special kind of association (not greek, resources and communities are concentrated in one place) Society where economy is centrally-managed: reconstruction of knossos palace. Look like a maze: minoan civilization linear a tables. Range of communication is narrow = you don"t need to write the records (just remember is enough since the communication is narrow) Number of symbols are invented before the writing letter has developed (number, symbol, syllabus, little words (grain, meat, bronze)) Clay tablets that are same as middle east (but they use their own scripts) Each symbol means syllabus (a concept: minoan civilization phaistos disc. Less than 90 symbols to express the language.