CLST 129 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Wace, Helladic Period, Alan Wace

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 129
• Professor: Anne Foley

Document Summary

Lecture #21 evans: knossos iii continue nov 3rd. Double axe (labyrinth = the house of the double axe, so that"s what the palace really stands for) Bull head has gold horns, inlaid jasper for the eyes, one of evans prize finds. Horns of consecration according to evans, wherever you found these horns, it was a sacred parts of the palace. Realized that there were different scripts in use (class a and b. This could have meant a new dynasty, not new people. This important point since became accepted theory for 50 year. Unhappy because he didn"t find any rich burials to compare with schliemann"s success. At first thought knossos was a part of the mycenae empire, but changed his mind later. He decided this because what schliemann found in the shaft graves. Minoans therefore ruling at mycenae during shaft grave period. The people depicted in the shaft grave resembled minoan people. Palace built c. 2000, rebuilt after quake c. 1675.